- From: Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 04:53:07 -0700
- To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
After the e-mail thread resulting from my initial proposal[1] for closing Issue 302[2] I thought it might be useful to update the proposal based on the feedback. Here goes; From the ensuing discussion it seems that people are happy with; 2. Amend clause 4 of[5] to read: Certain graphs may sometimes contain a given edge and at other times that edge will be missing. Such missing edges can either be omitted from the serialization or can be encoded as an element information item with an xsi:nil attribute information item whose value is "true". The above effectively covers ( or makes unnecessary ) the 'outbound only' case We still need to tackle the 'inbound only' case. Noah is correct in[3] when he draws a graph with an inbound only edge. This is one way to tell the story and one I am perfectly happy with. The other way would be to state that encodings start with a node rather than an edge. This would require us to modify the language concerning EIIs and whether they represent edges, nodes or both. Currently EIIs always represent an edge and may also represent a node. We would need to add a case where an EII represented just a node. This would mean re-writing 3.1.1[4] and at the moment I'm struggling to come up with a reasonable and concise formulation. Thus unless anyone STRONGLY objects to the notion of an inbound only edge, I suggest we leave in the text about 'An edge MAY have only a terminating graph node, that is be inbound only.' in the current edcopy[6]. Remove the text about 'outbound only' edges from [6] and amend clause 4 of[5] as described above. Gudge [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Sep/0062.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-lc-issues#x302 [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Sep/0087.html [4] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.xml#encodingedgesan dnodes [5] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.xml#complexenc [6] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.xml#graphedges
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