Re: WSDL 1.2 drops use="encoded"

On Sunday, Mar 2, 2003, at 21:32 America/Boston, Rich Salz wrote:
>
> The definitive tone of Don's message made me go back and re-read the
> proposal.  I still think I'm right.  If only "literal" is supported, 
> than
> the message schema must exactly describe the message: no multiref 
> strings,
> etc., unless explicit encoded into the schema.  Is that correct?
>
Yes, you are indeed correct.

> If I have an operation
>     int foo(const char* a, const char* b)
> then using SOAP encoding, the body would look like
>    <SOAP:Body>
>     <foo xmlns="....">
>      <a href="#b"/>
>      <b>cloned string</b>
>    </foo>
>
> But the schema would look like foo as a complex element with 
> sub-elements
> a and b as xsd:string.
>
Note that the SOAP encoding schema includes a set of simple types for 
just this purpose, e.g.

   <xs:attributeGroup name="commonAttributes" >
     <xs:annotation>
	  <xs:documentation>
	    Attributes common to all elements that function as accessors or
         represent independent (multi-ref) values.  The ref attribute is
         intended to be used in a manner like CONREF.  That is, the 
element
         content should be empty iff the ref attribute appears
	  </xs:documentation>
	</xs:annotation>
	<xs:attribute ref="tns:id" />
	<xs:attribute ref="tns:ref" />
     <xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other" processContents="lax" />
   </xs:attributeGroup>

   <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:ID" />
   <xs:attribute name="ref" type="xs:IDREF" />

   <xs:element name="string" type="tns:string" />
   <xs:complexType name="string" >
     <xs:simpleContent>
       <xs:extension base="xs:string" >
         <xs:attributeGroup ref="tns:commonAttributes" />
       </xs:extension>
     </xs:simpleContent>
   </xs:complexType>

So for simple types you can use the SOAP encoding variants. For complex 
types you can re-use the attributeGroup. Not a perfect solution but 
better than nothing.

Marc.

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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.