RE: SOAP Encoding / Data Model as a (REST?) stand-alone data form at

 Mike,
 please see below.

                   Jacek Kopecky

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



On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Mike Dierken wrote:

 > >  As for REST, I think the standard should be just plain XML. 8-)
 > 
 > Which standard? XMLProtocol? SOAP? 
 > FYI, REST by itself isn't a standard, its a way of building large systems
 > (like 'event based integration', 'message passing architecture', etc.)
 > 
 > And for 'plain XML' - what about all the GIF, JPEG, CSS, JS, ZIP, JAR, MP3,
 > etc. that fly around? Who will speak for these?

I don't know what made me state that, I think I was confused and 
thought the SOAP Encoding was proposed as a standard for 
REST-transmitted structured data.