© 2013 TutorialsPoint.COM SOAP Fault Element When an error
occurs during processing, the response to a SOAP message is a
SOAP fault element in the body of the message, and the fault is
returned to the sender of the SOAP message. The SOAP fault
mechanism returns specific information about the error,
including a predefined code, a description, the address of the
SOAP processor that generated A SOAP Message can carry only one
fault block Fault element is an optional part of SOAP Message
For the HTTP binding, a successful response is linked to the 200
to 299 range of status codes; SOAP fault is linked to the 500 to
599 range of status codes. The SOAP Fault element has the
following sub elements: ||A text code used to indicate a class
of errors. See the next Table for a listing of predefined fault
codes. ||A text message explaning the error ||A text string
indicating who caused the fault. This is useful if the SOAP
message travels through several nodes in the SOAP message path,
and the client needs to know which n