- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:04:21 -0500
- To: henrikn@microsoft.com
- Cc: "Marc Hadley" <marc.hadley@sun.com>, rsalz@zolera.com, "xml-dist-app" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen writes: >> >Suggestion: "SOAP requires that 'header blocks be processed in >> >a manner fully conformant with the specification for that block' [1]. >> >Such specifications MUST indicate (a) the situations, if any in which >> >an intermediary is to 're-insert' a header block into a relayed >> >SOAP message and (b) any constraints on the position within the >> >relayed header at which the re-insertion is to occur." >> >Editorial wordsmithing is required, but I think this is the >> >right approach. >> >> I tend to see this more as a guideline than a hard, testable >> requirement. I think it's a fairly hard requirement on the specification for a module that requires re-insertion. It's not machine testable, necessarily, but one certainly can look at such a specification ask: "does it tell you whether to reinsert, and if so where?". ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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