SOAP Fault Element

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SOAP Fault Element is used to hold error and status information for SOAP messages.

The optional SOAP Fault element is used to indicate error messages.

If a Fault element is provided, it must be a child of the Body element. In a SOAP message, the Fault element can appear only once.

SOAP's Fault element has the following child elements:

Child Element	Description
<faultcode>	Code for identifying the fault
<faultstring>	Human-readable explanation of the fault
<faultactor>	Information about who caused the fault
<detail>	Holds application-specific error information related to the Body element

The faultcode values defined below must be used in the faultcode element when describing errors:

Error	Description
VersionMismatch	An invalid namespace for the SOAP Envelope element was found.
MustUnderstand	A direct child element of the Header element (with a mustUnderstand attribute set to "1") could not be understood.
Client	The message was incorrectly formed or contained incorrect information.
Server	There was a problem with the server, so it could not proceed with processing.