RE: Proposed resolution: issues 78, 16

Would not the first immediate child of header|body either not marked with
root attribute or marked with SOAP-ENC:root="1" be equivalent to the
serialization root marked with the "start" attribute?

-Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-dist-app-request@w3.org
> [mailto:xml-dist-app-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Jacek Kopecky
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:31 AM
> To: Doug Davis
> Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed resolution: issues 78, 16
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>
>  Doug,
>  I don't think we could remove "root" from section 5 because in
> general you can have multiple serialization roots and using
> "start" for marking these would be a hack.
>
>                             Jacek Kopecky
>
>                             Idoox
>                             http://www.idoox.com/
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>
>
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> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Doug Davis wrote:
>
>  > ok- #1 is a good reason.  8-)
>  > If we do go with "start" we can remove "root" right?
>  > -Dug
>  >
>  >
>  > Jacek Kopecky <jacek@idoox.com>@w3.org on 08/02/2001 11:42:18 AM
>  >
>  > Sent by:  xml-dist-app-request@w3.org
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>  >
>  > To:   Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
>  > cc:   <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>  > Subject:  Re: Proposed resolution: issues 78, 16
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Doug,
>  >  There are couple of reasons for "start":
>  >  1) with "root", you have to parse the whole body to see if the
>  > attribute was not used in case it really was not, while with
>  > "start" you either know it's the first element (if "start"'s not
>  > present) or you only have to parse up to the element pointed to
>  > by "start",
>  >  2) "root" belongs to encodings and if we move it to the core,
>  > the multiref notion would be moved as well (because "root" is for
>  > use with multirefs) and we would practically mandate a particular
>  > way of referencing data inside the payload,
>  >  3) as has been pointed out a few times, "start" has more uses,
>  > like e.g. it could point to the first header to be processed.
>  >  Kind regards
>  >
>  >                             Jacek Kopecky
>  >
>  >                             Idoox
>  >                             http://www.idoox.com/
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Doug Davis wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Perhaps someone could explain something to me.
>  >  > The proposal is for a "start" attribute that
>  >  > refers to the top-most element in the body.  Right
>  >  > now SOAP has the notion of a "root" attribute
>  >  > (granted its in the encoding section, but it can
>  >  > be moved).  How is the "start" attribute any
>  >  > better than the "root" attribute?  In both cases
>  >  > we need to read/parse at least the first XML element
>  >  > of each to determine either if the "name" matches
>  >  > the one on the "start" attribute, or if the
>  >  > "root" attribute is there.  I don't see the
>  >  > benefit of "start". Am I missing something?
>  >  > -Dug
>  >  >
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>  >

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