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Capability Element (XMLA)

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Indicates support for a protocol capability in the parent ProtocolCapabilities header element.

Syntax

  
<ProtocolCapabilities>  
   ...  
   <Capability>...</Capability>  
   ...  
</ProtocolCapabilities>

Element characteristics

Characteristic Description
Data type and length String
Default value None
Cardinality 0-n: Optional element that can occur more than once.

Element relationships

Relationship Element
Parent elements ProtocolCapabilities
Child elements None

Remarks

The Capability element indicates that a particular capability, such as binary or compression, is supported by either the application that included the ProtocolCapabilities header element in the SOAP header of the SOAP request, or by the instance of Analysis Services that included the ProtocolCapabilities header element in the SOAP header of the SOAP response. The value of the Capability element is the name of the capability to be supported.

Analysis Services supports the capabilities listed in the following table.

Capability name Description
sx Binary XML support
xpress Compression support