[NEW ISSUE] 6720 Metadata returnrd by WS-Transfer GET unclear

Section 6.1 of WS-MEX says ...

"... The metadata associated with a service endpoint may be available as
multiple metadata resources. As a result, the metadata returned by the Get
request to a metadata resource's endpoint may be limited to a particular
metadata type (@Dialect) and identifier (@Identifier).

The representation of a metadata resource MAY be a mex:Metadata element or any
other document format (e.g. [XML Schema: Structures], [XML Schema: Datatypes],
[WSDL 1.1], [WS-Policy]) for which a mex:MetadataSection/@Dialect has been
defined."

I don't understand what this says.  Why don't we say, instead, "A WS-Transfer
GET on a EPR returns the metadata element (child) of the EPR?"

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All the best, Ashok

Received on Thursday, 19 March 2009 17:01:46 UTC