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title: "What do you understand by SOAP encoding?"  
description: "What do you understand by SOAP encoding?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-08-26  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2047/what-do-you-understand-by-soap-encoding  
category: "wcf"  
tags: ["wcf"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What do you understand by SOAP encoding?

The Serialization of the types, such as integers and strings, inside a SOAP message is called encoding. The SOAP objects use XML elements and attributes to serialized data, for example, encodingStyle is an attribute of the Envelop element, which is used to specify the encoding rules for a SOAP object.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

The Serialization of the types, such as integers and strings, inside a SOAP message is called encoding. The SOAP objects use XML elements and attributes to serialized data, for example, encodingStyle is an attribute of the Envelop element, which is used to specify the encoding rules for a SOAP object.


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