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layout: m1x_soap
title: WS-I Compliance
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<h3>WS-I Compliance Mode</h3>
				    <p>Magento provides you with the ability to use two modes for SOAP API V2. These are with WS-I compliance mode enabled and WS-I compliance mode disabled. The first one was introduced to make the system flexible, namely, to increase compatibility with .NET and Java programming languages.</p>

<p>To enable/disable the WS-I compliance mode, perform the following steps:</p>
<ol>
	<li>In the Magento Admin Panel, go to <b>System &gt; Configuration &gt; Magento Core API</b>.</li>
	<li>In the WS-I Compliance drop-down, select <b>Yes</b> to enable the WS-I compliance mode and <b>No</b> to disable the WS-I compliance mode, correspondingly.<br/>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}common/images/m1x/soap_wsi-config.png" style="border: 1px solid black"/></li>
</ol>


<p>The WS-I compliant mode uses the same WSDL endpoint as SOAP API V2 does. The key difference is that XML namespaces are used in WS-I compliance mode.<br/>
</p>

<p>WSDL file with disabled WS-I compliance mode:<br/>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}common/images/m1x/soap_wsdl.png" style="border: 1px solid black"/></p>

<p>WSDL file with enabled WS-I compliance mode:<br/>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}common/images/m1x/soap_wsdl-wsi.png" style="border: 1px solid black"/></span></p>