Re: Ports, Names, Symbol Spaces and targetNamespace

+1. 8-)

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet Corporation
                   http://www.systinet.com/



On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Martin Gudgin wrote:

 > 
 > According to WSDL 1.1 the value of the name attribute of all port
 > elements in a WSDL document must be unique. Effectively, ports have
 > their own symbol space, along with messages, portTypes, bindings and
 > services. However, ports do NOT take on the target namespace of the WSDL
 > document, so it is impossible to refer to them from elsewhere ( e.g.
 > from another WSDL document ). For consistency, it would make sense to
 > say that the names of ports need only be unique within the service they
 > are contained by.
 > 
 > Changes to spec:
 > 
 > In section 3.8 change:
 > 
 > The name attribute provides a unique name among all ports defined within
 > in the enclosing WSDL document
 > 
 > To 
 > 
 > The name attribute provides a unique name among all ports defined within
 > a given service element
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Changes to schema:
 > 
 > remove uniqueness constraint on wsdl:service/wsdl:port from definitions
 > global element declaration
 > Add uniqueness constraint for wsdl:port to service local element
 > declaration
 > 
 > 
 > Gudge
 >