Re: Issue 30: Action item 2001/06/20

If SOAP is expressed as an XML syntax, then how can it 
be ignored? Are we saying that XMLBase cannot be used in
the context of a SOAP message?

Cheers,

Chris
Paul Cotton wrote:
> 
> We only have to deal with XML Base if we think SOAP 1.2 should support
> it.  Personally, I do not think this is mandatory for SOAP 1.2
> especially since SOAP 1.1 did fine without refering to XML Base.
> 
> I suggest you open a new issue about XML Base support if you think its
> support is mandatory.  It is really orthogonal to Issue 30.
> 
> /paulc
> 
> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> 17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3
> Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329
> <mailto:pcotton@microsoft.com>
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: christopher ferris [mailto:chris.ferris@east.sun.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:28 PM
> > To: Paul Cotton
> > Cc: W3C XML Protocol IG (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: Issue 30: Action item 2001/06/20
> >
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > Just a nit.
> >
> > The href attribute should be of type "anyURI" as defined in
> > XML schema datatypes.
> >
> > It seems to me that we need to address any implications of XML Base
> > on the value of the href attribute if it isn't expressed as an
> > absolute URI.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Paul Cotton wrote:
> > >
> > > Action item 2001/06/20 asked me to clarify Issue 30 [1].  This issue
> > > originated in my email [2] that outlined how SOAP 1.1 meet the XML
> > > Protocol R4xxx Requirements:
> > >
> > > "R403
> > > ----
> > > Requirement: Data serialized according to the XML Protocol data
> > > representation may contain references to data outside the
> > serialization.
> > > These references must be Uniform
> > > Resource Identifiers (URIs).
> > >
> > > Comment: The SOAP/1.1 encoding uses the "id" and "href"
> > attributes to
> > > name
> > > and refer to resources or sub-parts of resources. The
> > format of the href
> > > attribute is of type "uri-reference" as defined by XML
> > schema. The "id"
> > > attribute is of type "ID" as defined by XML/1.0. There are no
> > > restrictions
> > > on the value of a URI used as value in a href attribute.
> > >
> > > Judgement: SOAP/1.1 covers this requirement although it is not
> > > explicitly
> > > stated that URIs can in fact point to anything."
> > >
> > > Issue 30 Clarification:
> > > In my opinion, the only point that we want to clarify (and
> > it is only a
> > > clarification) is that a consequence of using URIs is that they can
> > > point to anything and not only within the same document (of
> > the style
> > > #foo). Some implementers may be surprised that the value of the href
> > > attribute could be something like
> > "http://www.foo.com/some.doc" if we do
> > > not point this out in a clarification. In addition we might want to
> > > indicate that they can point to an attachment to the SOAP
> > message [3].
> > > In both of the latter cases we want to be sure to indicate
> > that these
> > > URI's point outside of the current SOAP message.
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues#x30
> > > [2]
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Feb/0045.html
> > > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments
> > >
> > > Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> > > 17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3
> > > Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329
> > > <mailto:pcotton@microsoft.com>
> >

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