Summary

In this chapter you learned the following:

• Copying XML documents can be as simple as copying them from one server to another.

• Not only is XML universally understood by computers, but SOAP can be used to apply meaning to the context of an XML document.

• SOAP is used to send messages between computers using the HTTP protocol.

• A Web Service exists on the Internet as a namespace from which you can extract functional data, when given an appropriate expression, contained with a SOAP XML message.