Proper use of HTTP status codes in a “validation” server

Question

Among the data my application sends to a third-party SOA server are complex XMLs. The server owner does provide the XML schemas (.xsd) and, since the server rej

Answer 1

From w3c: 400 = The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.

I wouldn't serve that up unless it was actually the case that the server could not understand the request. If you're just getting invalid xml, serve a 200 and explain why things are not working.

Regards Fake