SOAP for transporting XML documents

Do SOAP messages using document encoding need to have an element below the
element that defines the service.

In the example below, the Data element contains many  sub-elements (I have
just shown the first few) instead of one sub-element
(the pseudo xpath //.../soap:Body/Data/* would return several nodes in the
infoset instead of just one).

Is this bad, will most SOAP toolkits choke on it, and will people have
trouble processing it?


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- $Id:
//depot/teams/namespaces/data/ion/historical/pushmessaging/1/recorder.PushMe
ssaging.20020121.xml#15 $ -->
<soap:Envelope
xmlns="http://rddl.xmlinside.net/PowerMeasurement/data/ion/historical/pushme
ssaging/1/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
        <soap:Header/>
        <soap:Body>
                <Data id="C905E7ED-B616-4018-A547-1D6C70411BE0"
xmlns:ident="http://rddl.xmlinside.net/PowerMeasurement/data/ion/identity/1/
">
                        <ident:GeneratedBy ident:name="My.a8500"
ident:namespace="PowerMeasurement" ident:type="8500"
ident:signature="PQ-9912A005-01"
ident:dateTime="2001-11-29T13:35:00.000-08:00"/>
                        <ident:Configuration ident:revision="8500V218"
ident:template="8500_FAC-9S-39S_V1.6.0.0.0" ident:owner="Taner Yildirim"
ident:tag1="PML Victoria" ident:tag2="Office 231">
                                <ident:Timezone>
                                        <ident:Bias>480</ident:Bias>
                                        <ident:DSTBias>-60</ident:DSTBias>

<ident:DSTStart>2002-04-07T02:00:00-08:00</ident:DSTStart>

<ident:DSTEnd>2002-10-27T02:00:00-08:00</ident:DSTEnd>
                                </ident:Timezone>
                        </ident:Configuration>
                        <AnotherElement n="3"/>
                        <AnotherElement n="33"/>

Doug Ransom
Interoperability Architect
Power Measurement
2195 Keating X Road
Saanichton, BC, Canada  V8M 2A5
Tel: 1-(250) 652-7100
E-Mail: <mailto:[email protected]>
Website: <http://www.pwrm.com/>

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