> > And even if I was, the SOAP toolkit which does this parsing
> > may or may not respect it and that's not something in my
> > control.  (Mine does, but I obviously make no guarantees about others)
>
> A SOAP toolkit is also not required to allow the user to control how or
> where the namespaces are placed in the XML - so insisting that
> "namespace definitions should be placed on the innermost element that
> they affect" might cause compatibility problems with some SOAP toolkits.

Even if the tk automatically puts them at the top, the server MUST have
had them in the record to start with for recordPacking=string.
For them to not be there when recordPacking=string is simply _wrong_.

Secondly, SOAP tks for the client side can afford to be worse than the tks
used for the servers, as per much prior discussion.

Rob

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