diff --git a/reference/soap/functions/is-soap-fault.xml b/reference/soap/functions/is-soap-fault.xml
index e4b6dc8b4b..1d3990b7cf 100644
--- a/reference/soap/functions/is-soap-fault.xml
+++ b/reference/soap/functions/is-soap-fault.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
 <refentry id="function.is-soap-fault">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>is_soap_fault</refname>
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 $client = new SoapClient("some.wsdl", array('exceptions' => 0));
 $result = $client->SomeFunction();
 if (is_soap_fault($result)) {
-    trigger_error("SOAP Fault: (faultcode: {$result->faultcode}, faultstring: {$result->faultstring})", E_ERROR);
+    trigger_error("SOAP Fault: (faultcode: {$result->faultcode}, faultstring: {$result->faultstring})", E_USER_ERROR);
 }
 ?>
 ]]>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ try {
     $client = new SoapClient("some.wsdl");
     $result = $client->SomeFunction(/* ... */);
 } catch (SoapFault $fault) {
-    trigger_error("SOAP Fault: (faultcode: {$fault->faultcode}, faultstring: {$fault->faultstring})", E_ERROR);
+    trigger_error("SOAP Fault: (faultcode: {$fault->faultcode}, faultstring: {$fault->faultstring})", E_USER_ERROR);
 }
 ?>
 ]]>