Comments on SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature

These comments apply to the SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature Working Draft
dated 14th August 2002[1]

1.	The att:SOAPMessage property should be described as being an XML
Infoset ( this is the abstract structure of a SOAP message )

2.	The att:SecondaryPartBag should be a sub-property of the
att:SOAPMessage, that is it, and the representations it contains,
should be contained entirely within the XML Infoset of the SOAP message.


In general, the notion of information being outside the SOAP envelope
seems to be problematic, given that the processing model[2] of SOAP is
defined in terms of an XML Infoset.

Regards

Martin Gudgin
Microsoft Corp.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/3/02/24-soap-attachment-feature.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#msgexchngmdl