- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:49:53 +0200
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- CC: Bernard Desruisseaux <bernard.desruisseaux@oracle.com>, webdav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Lisa Dusseault wrote: > Bernard & I came up with more questions yesterday: > > Can there be untyped arrays? How would I show an array of XML elements? 1) Yes. You can have whatever datatypes you want. 2) It's up to you to define a type for that (so far, we haven't needed that). > E.g. would this be valid? > <supportedliveproperties xsi:type="soap-enc:Array"> > <supportedliveproperty><getetag/></supportedliveproperty> > <supportedliveproperty><resourcetype/></supportedliveproperty> > ... > </supportedliveproperties> As far as I can tell, it would be legal according to <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/#_Toc478383522>. > Are arrays assumed to be ordered or unordered? Would it be legal for a > server to reorder array values when returning them? "The representation of the value of an array is an ordered sequence of elements constituting the items of the array." Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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