RE: WSDL Import/Include Locations

Gudge,

I think we need to specify that it is an error to import or include two 
inequivalent definitions of the same component. A processor should 
therefore not non-deterministically ignore imports since that will lead to 
noninteroperability, i.e. one vendor may ignore an incompatible definition 
while another raises it as an error.

In general, I think we need to tradeoff flexibility in favour of 
interoperability, which means that we need to specify behavoir more 
tightly.

Arthur Ryman,
Rational Desktop Tools Development

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www-ws-desc-request@w3.org wrote on 02/18/2004 09:53:37 AM:

> 
> I would expect a schema processor to deal with multiple imports of the
> same namespace, perhaps by ignoring all but the first that resolves to a
> set of schema components.
> 
> Given that the spec does not rule out multiple import elements with the
> same value for their namespace attribute I would expect a WSDL processor
> to do the same.
> 
> Gudge