Note about SOAP submission and mediatype/encoding charset change to XForms 1.1

An updated editor's draft of XForms 1.1 is now available from the working 
group home page.

It contains the change requested by the working group to SOAP submission.

However, the focus of discussion by the working group was on the charset 
placed into the Accept header, which is specific to the GET operation. But 
 the same charset operations happen for the Content-Type header in the 
POST case, so I assumed it was appropriate to make the analogous change 
there.

This affects the test suite.

Also, it should be clear that, due to this change, the Accept header (get) 
and the Content-type header (post) will *always* have a charset MIME 
parameter because the encoding attribute has a default of UTF-8.  I don't 
think this is a problem, just an observation that hopefully everyone else 
also doesn't think is a problem.

Cheers,
John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Staff Member
Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher
Chair, W3C Forms Working Group
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com 

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