Re: issue 78

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:08:29 -0700, in soap you wrote:

>I've been asked by the WG to seed discussion on issue 78 from the issues
>list [1].
>
>The crux of issue 78 can be described as follows:

looks good so far,

><ProposedRewriteOfSection71>
>The Body of a SOAP RPC message MUST contain one and only one serialization
>root. In the case of a request message, this root is the request element. In
>the case of a response message, this root is EITHER a response element OR a
>fault element.
>
>In the case of a method with a void return type and no [out] or [in,out]
>parameters, the response element will be empty, in which case it MAY be
>omitted. This will cause the Body to be empty. If the Envelope contains an
>empty Body and does not contain a Header, the entire Envelope MAY be
>omitted.
></ProposedRewriteOfSection71>

What's the motivation behind the last paragraph, it appear to serve no
purpose except to complicate matters.

Thanks
Simon