Immediate child elements of the SOAP Body element may be namespace-qualified. SOAP defines one element inside the Body element in the default namespace ("http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"). This is the SOAP Fault element and it is used to indicate error messages.

The example above requests the first name. Note that the m:GetName and the Item elements above are application-specific elements. They are not a part of the SOAP standard.

A SOAP response could look something like this: