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title: "What is WSDL?"  
description: "What is WSDL?"  
author: "Manasavi Rajpoot"  
published: 2010-11-17  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/244/what-is-wsdl  
category: "xml"  
tags: ["xml"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is WSDL?

WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services).

## Answers

### Answer by Manasavi Rajpoot

WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services).


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