soap header binding

[Küst Heiko]

hi,

a question about headers: when i define a header (some type with some
attributes) and define the binding for that header to be soap-encoded, the
multiRef reference to the header goes to the soap-body (*) which means that
the header information is splitted up between soap-header and soap-body:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
        <soapenv:Header>
(*)             <ns1:soaBaseHeader
soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next";
soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" href="#id0"
xmlns:ns1="urn://winterthur/com/soa/base/xsd"/>
        </soapenv:Header>
        <soapenv:Body>
                <ns2:updatePartnerAddressInfo
soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xmlns:ns2="urn://winterthur/com/partner/PartnerModify">
                        <partnerAddressInfo href="#id1"/>
                </ns2:updatePartnerAddressInfo>
(*)             <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0"
soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xsi:type="ns3:SOABaseHeader"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xmlns:ns3="urn://winterthur/com/soa/base/xsd">
                        <BaseHeaderVersion xsi:type="xsd:string"
xsi:nil="true"/>
                        ... other attributes ...
                </multiRef>
                <multiRef id="id1" soapenc:root="0"
soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xsi:type="ns4:PartnerAddressInfo"
xmlns:ns4="urn://winterthur/com/partner/PartnerModify/xsd"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>
                        <streetName
xsi:type="xsd:string">R&#xF6;merstrasse</streetName>
                        ... other attributes ...
                </multiRef>
                <multiRef id="id2" soapenc:root="0"
soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xsi:type="xsd:int"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>8500</multiRef>
        </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

is this a correct behaviour? shouldn't all header-information appear in the
soap-header?

if i use literal for the header binding, the body binding automatically
seems to be literal too...

thanks for your help

heiko