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What is the only data format permitted with the SOAP API?

The correct answer is D. XML. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) exclusively uses XML (Extensible Markup Language) for message formatting. SOAP messages are structured XML documents that follow a strict envelope-body format. This is a key distinction from REST APIs, which can support multiple formats like…

Submitted by sofia.br· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Application Security

Question

What is the only data format permitted with the SOAP API?

Options

  • AHTML
  • BSAML
  • CXSML
  • DXML

How the community answered

(31 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    90% (28)

Explanation

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) exclusively uses XML (Extensible Markup Language) for message formatting. SOAP messages are structured XML documents that follow a strict envelope-body format. This is a key distinction from REST APIs, which can support multiple formats like JSON, XML, and plain text. HTML is a markup language for web pages, SAML is an authentication/authorization standard (itself XML-based but not a general SOAP data format), and XSML is not a real data format.

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#SOAP#XML#API

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