catherine le yaouanc (asker) Dec 13, 2010:

c'est ce que je pense aussi mais je ne sais pas s'il est plus courant de dire réponse aux échecs ou en cas d'échec. en tous cas, merci.

Martin Cassell Dec 13, 2010:

well, that's not much to go on, but it makes me tend towards thinking that "failed response" is not "response which failed", but "response to the 'failed' condition", so your term should be read as "the XML for the response in the case of failure": perhaps "le code XML de réponse aux échecs/en cas d'échec".

But honestly it is not possible to be definitive with so little evidence. I hope the wider context of the rest of your translation will help.

catherine le yaouanc (asker) Dec 13, 2010:

hum sorry pb de balises Merci de vos efforts, voici le début du code pour SOAP Response (Failure). sans les balises <>par contre.
soap:Body
soap:Fault
faultcode.../faultcode
faultstring.../faultstring
detail
ApiExceptionFault

catherine le yaouanc (asker) Dec 13, 2010:

code Martin, voici une partie du code : SOAP Response (Failure)
<soap:Body>
..<soap:Fault>
....<faultcode>...</faultcode>
....<faultstring>...</faultstring>
....<detail>
......<ApiExceptionFault
J'espère que ça vous aide

Martin Cassell Dec 13, 2010:

context It would all be so much easier if we could see the XML code in question

Martin Cassell Dec 13, 2010:

syntax assuming that the source text given is (a) free from mistakes and (b) native-written, by far the most plausible syntactic analysis for this term is NP+NP, the first NP being in apposition and qualifying the second NP:
NP1(failed response) + NP2(XML) = XML relating to failed response

It's a question of word order. To read the component "XML" as somehow adjectival is to misunderstand the syntax of EN compound noun phrases.

GILLES MEUNIER Dec 13, 2010:

xml Je pense que c'est un fichier réponse au format XML Martin

Martin Cassell Dec 13, 2010:

is the code available? clearly the sentence refers to some XML code.

my best guess, without seeing it, is that this is the XML code generated in the event of a failed response: "le code XML correspondant à un échec de réponse" or something like that.

GILLES MEUNIER Dec 13, 2010:

xml ça serait donc la réponse xml incorrecte ou échec de la réponse xml

catherine le yaouanc (asker) Dec 13, 2010:

response je ne pense pas que ce soit le fichier qui soit défectueux. Plus haut dans mon texte j'ai SOAP response (success) et SOAP response (failure)