What do you mean by SOAP encoding?
A SOAP message has no default encoding. Hence, in order to define data types used in the document encodingStyle attribute is used. It can appear in any SOAP element.
Syntax:soap:encodingStyle="URI"
What do you mean by SOAP encoding?
XML format is used by SOAP for encoding data. It maps the high level data types into a serialized XML format known as Section 5 encoding (also known as SOAP encoding) and literal encoding. The other type of encoding named Literal encoding uses XML schema to validate information.