A collection of zero or more blocks of information prepended to a SOAP message, each of which might be targeted at any SOAP receiver within the message path.
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                                                                    NIST SP 800-95
                                                                
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                                                                            Web Services Glossary - W3C Working Group Note 11 February 2004