1.5 Applicability Statement

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The .NET Binary Format: SOAP Data Structure is a general-purpose way to represent an XML document and is applied as specified in [MC-NBFX] section 1.3. Additionally, the format is particularly well-suited for SOAP documents as specified in [SOAP1.2-1/2007] because it defines a fixed set of s from the SOAP vocabulary that a producer and a consumer of documents in this format can reference and results in smaller documents.

This specification extends the format described by [MC-NBFX], which describes an efficient encoding for general XML documents. This specification describes efficient encoding for strings that are specific to SOAP messages and does not supersede any of the structures defined in [MC-NBFX].