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5.20. Service Contract Definition
5.20.1. Service Contract
A service contract is a set of XML schemas that define the incoming request, outgoing response and fault message details. The schemas representing the request and response messages are used to define the format of the main body section of the message and can also enforce data validation of that content.

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