Web Services: SOAP Fault

• SOAP Fault element is used to carry error, status information
• If present it must appear as Body entry and must not appear more than once with in Body element.
• It contains a faultcode, faultstring, faultactor and detail sub-elements. Former two are mandatory.
• The contents of faultcode is a QName from XMLSchema.
• The faultstring's content is a human-readable string.
• The fault actor element is intended to provide information about who caused fault to happen with in the message path
• The detail element is intended for carrying application specific error related to Body element. Its absence indicates fault is not related to processing of Body element.