Re: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encodi ng (fwd)

+1 on John Jack's 8-) suggested text. Thank you, Jean-Jacques.

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet (formerly Idoox)
                   http://www.systinet.com/



On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jean-Jacques Moreau wrote:

 > Mike, thanks for your input. I would suggest further amendments to your text,
 > and in particular removing the second sentence since typing information may be
 > provided outside the target resource, for example directly within the SOAP
 > enveloppe, even for non-XML resources albeit in a non-standard fashion:
 >
 > "This specification does not constrain the type of resource that can be
 > referenced through the <att>href</att> attribute information item. In the case
 > of an XML resource, the type MAY be defined by the <att>xsi:type</att>
 > attribute information item or by an associated XML Schema. For non-XML
 > resources, other typing means need to be used, although the specification of
 > such typing means is outside the scope of this specification."
 >
 > Jean-Jacques.
 >
 > "Champion, Mike" wrote:
 >
 > > Here's a quick attempt at translating it into spec-ese:
 > >
 > > "The SOAP 1.2 specification does not constrain the type of resource
 > > referenced by the href attribute. It is the responsibility of the target
 > > resource to define any type information.  In the case of XML, the type can
 > > be defined by an XML schema associated with the target resource, or by the
 > > xsi:type information item.  For non-XML target resources, other means to
 > > define the type will have to be provided outside the SOAP framework."
 > >
 > > Use, revise, or ignore as you see fit ...
 > >
 >