I'm very new to webservices. I'm trying to figure out how I can formulate a request message (and determine what the response message) would be based on the wsdl description that I have.

This is from a third party web service. The WSDL description that I have access to gives me a bunch of information like <types> <message> <operation> etc.

But in the examples that I've seen online, it's showing the request mesage within the "soap:envelope" tag.

What am I missing?

Eventually I'd like to be able to call this webservice using JQuery. But I can't even figure out how to formulate the request message let alone make an ajax call to it.

any help would be appreciated.