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Section 7.4 - Message Definitions
Chapter 7 - Fundamental WSDL Part I: Abstract Description Design
Book - Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA
Series - Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
Site - www.soabooks.com


<message name="msgPurchaseOrderRequest">
  <part name="PurchaseOrder" element="po:purchaseOrder"/>
</message>

Example 7.9 - The msgPurchaseOrderRequest message construct with a part child element. (The part element is
explained in the following section.)


<message name="msgPurchaseOrderResponse">
  <part name="Acknowledgement" type="xsd:string"/>
</message>

Example 7.10 - A message construct with a part child element.


<message name="msgPurchaseOrderRequest">
  <part name="PONumber" type="xsd:string"/>
  <part name="PODate" type="xsd:date"/>
  <part name="BillToParty" type="po:PartyType"/>
  <part name="ShipToParty" type="po:PartyType"/>
  <part name="LineItems" type="po:LineItemsType"/>
</message>

Example 7.11 - A message construct with multiple part child elements.


<message name="msgPurchaseOrderRequest">
  <part name="PurchaseOrder" type="po:PurchaseOrderType"/>
</message>

Example 7.12 - The message construct now with only one part element referring to the complex type that represents the same
sequence of elements as the previous example.


<message name="msgPurchaseOrderRequest">
  <part name="PurchaseOrder" element="po:purchaseOrder"/>
</message>

Example 7.13 - A message construct with a part child element associated with the global purchaseOrder element.


<definitions name="Purchase Order"
  targetNamespace="http://actioncon.com/contract/po"
  xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
  xmlns:tns=" http://actioncon.com/contract/po"
  xmlns:po="http://actioncon.com/schema/po">
  <types>
    <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      targetNamespace="http://actioncon.com/schema/po">
      <xsd:include
        schemaLocation="http://actioncon.com/schema/po.xsd"/>
      </xsd:schema>
  </types>
  <message name="msgPurchaseOrderRequest">
    <part name="PurchaseOrder" element="po:purchaseOrder"/>
  </message>
  <message name="msgPurchaseOrderResponse">
    <part name="Acknowledgement" element="po:acknowledgement"/>
  </message>
</definitions>

Example 7.15 - Message definitions based on the use of the element attribute.