XML和SOAP有什么区别？我一直在阅读一些关于SOAP的介绍性文章,但我很困惑.这是我第一次阅读SOAP,所以也许这很自然.
有人可以向我解释一下SOAP是什么以及它用于什么？也许给我一些它的用法例子？
维基百科有一个很棒的
article,包括一个很好的
example.
SOAP,originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol,is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks.
一个非常好的实际例子：
As a layman’s example of how SOAP procedures can be used,a SOAP message could be sent to a web-service-enabled web site (for example,a house price database) with the parameters needed for a search. The site would then return an XML-formatted document with the resulting data (prices,location,features,etc). Because the data is returned in a standardized machine-parseable format,it could then be integrated directly into a third-party site.
