- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:31:27 -0500
- To: soap@zaks.demon.co.uk
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
FWIW, RPC in SOAP 1.1 technically depends on the data model that's provided by the encoding. It models arguments as a struct [1], which is a concept that only exists in the encoding. This approach was designed, in part, to leave the door open to other encodings that would also model structs, but as with so much in SOAP 1.1 the spec is quite broad in its language, and I think you can interpret it as either requiring the chapter 5 encoding, or just requiring some encoding that models "structs". We surely need a less ambiguous presentation in SOAP 1.2. Whether to allow completely unencoded (E.g. modeled by XML schema or with no schema, rather than being a graph with structs, etc.) I am less sure. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/#_Toc478383533 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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