Wat is SOAP? Waar was da origineel de afkorting van? Wat betekend het tegenwoordig? SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol. (Toen het net bestond. In 2003 is het acronym weggevallen) SOAP is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP. SOAP forms the foundation layer of the Web services stack, providing a basic messaging framework that more abstract layers can build on. Wat is XQuery? Waar wordt XQuery voor gebruikt? XQuery is a query language (with some programming language features) that is designed to query collections of XML data. It is semantically similar to SQL.