RE: [XQuery] LQ-XQ-02 - Calling a Web Serice

I think the ability to either define functions external or import a
function library from a URL is sufficient for this purpose. Adding
additional syntax seem like just adding complexity for little gain...

Best regards
Michael (speaking for myself)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Liam Quin
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: [XQuery] LQ-XQ-02 - Calling a Web Serice
> 
> 
> The Web Serice Description Language (WSDL) [1] provides a facility for
> describing Web services - a WSDL document could be thought of as an
> XML description of a set of function signatures.
> 
> Some XML Query implementations will very likely support the idea
> of calling such functions in XPath expressions.
> 
> Would it increase interoperability of such implementations if
> one could explicitly associate a namespace prefix with a WSDL
> document in the XML Query Prolog?
> 
> For example,
>     import service cvt at "http://example.org/wsdl/cvt.wsdl";
> 
> and then, in the body of the query, one might be able to use
>     cvt:convert("F", "C", 23.6)
> to convert between temperatures.
> 
> An alternative to extending the prolog might be to extend access
> to an implementation's underlying URI resolver, so that users
> could implement WSDL support in XQuery directly.
> 
> However, interoperability and integration between specifications
> is important to the W3C.
> 
> Liam
> 
> 
> [1] Web Services Description Language,
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl20-20031110/
> 
> --
> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

Received on Monday, 22 March 2004 19:13:39 UTC