RE: Proposal for dealing with root, top-level multi-refs and enco dingStyle from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on 2002-05-06 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from May 2002)

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:16:01 -0700
To: "Murali Janakiraman" <murali@roguewave.com>, "Martin Gudgin" <martin.gudgin@btconnect.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D05A54547@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

In general I am nervous about introducing such convenience short-cuts -
it is likely to cause problems for signing folks and others who then
have to support this kind of special case.

Henrik

>Can't we allow encodingStyle to appear on any element but say 
>it doesn't apply to elements whose [namespace name] property 
>has the value of http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope
><http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope> . I am assuming the 
>other wordings (that it applies to itself and its decendants) 
>will be left as it is.

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