SOAP API Data Formats
Question
Most APIs will support a variety of different data formats or structures.
However, the SOAP API will only support which one of the following data formats?
Answers
Explanations
Click on the arrows to vote for the correct answer
A. B. C. D.A.
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) protocol only supports the Extensible Markup Language (XML) data format.
Although the other options are all data formats or data structures, they are not supported by SOAP.
The SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) API is a messaging protocol used for exchanging structured data between systems. SOAP has been widely used for web service communication over the internet.
One of the key characteristics of the SOAP API is that it enforces strict rules for the structure of data being exchanged between systems. This includes enforcing a specific data format or structure.
Among the answer options provided, the SOAP API will only support data in the XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. XML is a markup language that uses tags to define elements and attributes to define characteristics of those elements. It is commonly used for exchanging structured data between different systems and is the standard format used by SOAP API.
The other answer options are not correct. XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is used to transform XML documents into other formats such as HTML or PDF. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is another data format commonly used for web services, but it is not supported by SOAP API. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a markup language used for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties in a secure manner.
In conclusion, the correct answer is A. XML, as SOAP API only supports data in this specific format.
