RE: Resolution Text for Last Call Issue 222

Highland,

That seems fine... thank you.

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mountain, Highland M [mailto:highland.m.mountain@intel.com]
> Sent: 10 July 2002 21:48
> To: XMLP Comments (E-mail)
> Cc: Stuart' 'Williams (E-mail); David Fallside (E-mail)
> Subject: Resolution Text for Last Call Issue 222
> 
> 
> Issue as stated in the Last Call Issues List:
> 
> 222 "Single instance of encodingStyle attribute (scope?)  ..."
> 
> (Section 5.1.1 SOAP encodingStyle Attribute) 1st paragraph: SOAP defines
an
> optional encodingStyle attribute information item which indicates the
> encoding rules used to serialize a SOAP message. 
> This sentence suggest that a single instance of the attribute applies to
the
> whole message... which I believe is not the case. I'm also not sure how we
> resolved whether the attribute can be carried on the envelope 
> itself or not.
> 
> 
> It was noted during the WG call, July 11,  that the latest Last Call
> specification text clarifies the scope of the encodingStyle attribute as
> stated below:
> 
> First sentence of 5.1.1 now reads:
> The encodingStyle attribute information item indicates the encoding rules
> used to serialize parts of a SOAP message.
> Additionally, later in the section one finds:
> The scope of the encodingStyle attribute information item is that of its
> owner element information item and that element information item's
> descendants, unless a descendant itself carries such an attribute
> information item. If no encodingStyle attribute information item is in
scope
> for a particular element information item or the value of such an
attribute
> information item is the zero-length URI ("") then no claims are made
> regarding the encoding style of that element information item and its
> descendants.
> 
> 
> Highland Mary Mountain
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