New Issue for media-types and Proposed Solution

Current media-types note [1] Section 3.1 indicates that the 
expectedMediaType annotation is only a hint:

Applications that need to specify expected media types SHOULD use the 
schema annotation  to declare the range of expected values. The 
annotation should be considered only as a hint.

The second statement is misleading with the one that preceeds it. While 
the media-types document makes no recommendation whether the content 
must be valid with respect to the attribute declaration per resolution 
of Issues 198 [2] and Issue 199 [2], stating that it is a hint does not 
promote its use for applications that need to enable data binding based 
on the expected media type. For example, data binding specifications, 
such as  JAXRPC/JAXB, may be able to consume the annotation for 
providing stronger data binding based on the media type, if needed.

Therefore, we propose to resolve this problem by removing the sentence

Applications that need to specify expected media types SHOULD use the 
schema annotation  to declare the range of expected values.


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-media-types/
[2] 
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x198
[3] 
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x199

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Umit Yalcinalp                                  
Consulting Member of Technical Staff
ORACLE
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Email: umit.yalcinalp@oracle.com