SOAP Version 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection

provides a set of tests in order to show whether the assertions are implemented in a
SOAP processor. The primary goal of this document is to foster interoperability between
different SOAP 1.2 implementations. The document is intended to help implementors to
write SOAP processors that comply with SOAP 1.2 specification, and interoperate with
other SOAP processors that comply with SOAP 1.2 specification.
A SOAP 1.2 implementation that passes all of the tests specified in this document may
claim to conform to the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite $Date 2003/06/24 $.
Even though the purpose of the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite is to facilitate the creation of
interoperable implementations, conformance to the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite does not imply
conformance to the SOAP 1.2 specifications; there are mandatory requirements of the
specifications that are not tested by the suite (as a simple example, SOAP 1.2 requires
that every legal value of a role name is accepted, and all illegal ones rejected). An
implementation may be said to be SOAP 1.2 conformant if and only if it it satisfies the
conformance requirements specified in SOAP 1.2 specifications. The W3C does not at
this time provide for any comprehensive means of testing for such conformance.
Similarly, an implementation may conform to the SOAP 1.2 specifications even if it does
not support all capabilities tested by the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite. SOAP 1.2 specifications
admits special purpose implementations, such as those in dedicated controllers, which
may send and receive only a very limited suite of messages; the requirement is that
whatever is done be done correctly. An implementation may conform to the SOAP 1.2
specifications even if it does not support all capabilities tested by the SOAP 1.2 Test
Suite. The test suite defines higher level application semantics to enable testing and
facilitate interoperable implementations. It is not necessary for a SOAP processor to
support these higher level semantics to be SOAP 1.2 compliant.
Assertions for SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1 and Part 2 are numbered sequentially (1..n).
"Location of the assertion" points the source of the assertion (section or subsection
number) in Part 1 or Part 2. Hyperlinks are used to cross-reference to the original
specification section/subsection.
Some of the tests in this document use SOAPBuilders interoperability tests as a started
point, but have been modified to conform to the SOAP 1.2 specifications.
2. SOAP 1.2 Assertions
2.1 SOAP 1.2, Part 1 Assertions
Assertion x1-conformance-part1
Location of the assertion
SOAP 1.2 Part 1, Section 1.2
Text from the specification
For an implementation to claim conformance with the SOAP Version 1.2
specification, it MUST correctly implement all mandatory ("MUST")
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