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 -- Umit Yalcinalp Consulting Member of Technical Staff ORACLE Phone: +1 650 607 6154 Email: umit.yalcinalp@oracle.com
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