Re: Clarification on use of encodingStyle attribute

I would also like the answers to these questions. My own feelings are as
follows;

1    a single envelope can contain multiple disjoint graphs

2    If there are href/id connections between two header entries, they are a
single graph

3    In light of 2 we probably need to spell out that graph nodes can be
serialized in-line or out-of-line

Gudge



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From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
To: "Herve Ruellan" <ruellan@crf.canon.fr>
Cc: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <henrikn@microsoft.com>; "Martin Gudgin"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Clarification on use of encodingStyle attribute


> Did we ever settle the question of how many disjoint graphs there could be
> within a single soap envelope, and if so how are they delimited?  For
> example, if two separate header entries are each marked with the encoding
> style attribute (for the standard soap encoding), can there be href/id
> connections across the two?  How about if two sibling elements elements
> within the same header entry or body are similarly marked separately with
> an encoding style attribute?  Is all the encoded data in one envelope
> conceptually in one graph?  Does the answer change if the actual href/id
> patterns results in two disjoint sets of nodes that just happen not to be
> cross connected?  I think the answers to these questions are indirectly
> related to where you can put the encodingStyle attribute.  Thank you.
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>         To:     Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
>         cc:     xml-dist-app@w3.org, soap@zaks.demon.co.uk, Martin Gudgin
> <marting@develop.com>, (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM)
>         Subject:        Re: Clarification on use of encodingStyle
attribute
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> Henrik,
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> Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
> >  [snip]
> > As a result, it makes sense to allow encodingStyle on Body - it doesn't
> > apply to the Body element information item but to its contents. On the
> > other hand, it doesn't make sense to put the attribute on the Envelope
> > and Header element information items as Header blocks don't follow any
> > particular encoding style and neither does Envelope contents.
>
> I think it would be usefull to allow the use of the SOAP Data Model and
> of the SOAP Encoding in the content of Header blocks.
>
> If we allow this, I think we should follow the same reasoning for the
> Envelope and Header element information items as for the Body element
> information item: the encodingStyle attribute is allowed on all these,
> it doesn't apply on these but only on contained element information
> items for which an encodingStyle is meaningfull.
>
> In this way, by defining the encodingStyle for the Envelope element
> information items, a sender is able to define once the encoding it used
> for a Header block content, for the Body content...
>
> Does it make sense ?
>
> Hervé.
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Received on Thursday, 21 March 2002 09:52:24 UTC