>On a specific Web Service, there is a requirement to return an error formatted within a specific XML layout. So, if my assumption is ok, I understand that instead of calling COMRETURNERROR(), I have to lay out the error in something like this:
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>

><Faults>
> <Fault ...>
>  <faultcode />
>  <faultstring/>
>  <detail>
>   <faultCode>...</faultCode>
>   <faultAction>...</faultAction>
>   <faultActor>...</faultActor>
>   <faultDetail>...</faultDetail>
>  </detail>
> </Fault>
></Faults>
>

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>So, if my understand is correct, instead of invoking COMRETURNERROR(), which would have fired a messagebox on the client side, I am returning this XML string such as if everything went fine. It would then be a responsability of the client to detect such situation.
>
>Am I assuming correctly?

Yes. But keep in mind that, as stated in SOAP specs, you shouldn't have more than one fault element and, when present, it must come as a Body descendent.