- From: Jean-Jacques Moreau <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:32:39 +0100
- To: "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- CC: jacek <jacek@systinet.com>, xml-dist-app <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Congratulations for finding out what the "S" now stands for in "SOAP"! :) On a more serious note, I think Jacek was ruling this out in his proposal [1] (ante-penultimate paragraph), the reason being it is "too complicated". Personnally, I would prefer us to say instead that "the type of the referenced entity MAY be indicated by the enc:hrefType attribute". Jean-Jacques. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Dec/0129.html "John J. Barton" wrote: > At 07:48 PM 12/11/2001 -0500, Mark Baker wrote: > >An enthusiastic +1 > > > > > I agree and on a slightly more serious note, I would from a general Web > > > architecture point of view suggest that we not go down this particular > > > slippery slope. > > Somewhere in this thread I lost with whether or not > my SOAP application would be able to predict the > datatype of an external reference without accessing > the resource. I gather that the answer is "not through > SOAP". I can guess from the URL. I can make an extra > element. But the system doesn't say. Its Smalltalk, > not Pascal. (I'm ok with that, just unclear). > > ______________________________________________________ > John J. Barton email: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Barton/index.htm > MS 1U-17 Hewlett-Packard Labs > 1501 Page Mill Road phone: (650)-236-2888 > Palo Alto CA 94304-1126 FAX: (650)-857-5100
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