Re: New Issue: "Fault:" interacts with [delimiter]

Hi Jonathan,

Since this is an issue with a Working Draft, it doesn't need to go to  
the comments list; the public list is the appropriate place to bring  
it up.

Cheers,


On 22/08/2005, at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Marsh wrote:

>
> We define the default action value for WSDL 1.1 faults [1] as
>
>   [target namespace][delimiter][port type name][delimiter][operation
> name]Fault:[fault name]
>
> IIRC part of our reasoning for using "Fault:" as part of the structure
> rather than [delimiter] was that having a constant number of  
> delimiters
> in the pattern makes it easy to deconstruct the URI into its  
> constituent
> parts (all our actions have the same number of delimiters, though the
> delimiter might also appear in the [target namespace]).
>
> However, [delimiter] can be ":" which interacts with "Fault:" in a way
> that negates that advantage.
>
> Some options to consider:
> 1) replace "Fault:" with "[delimiter]Fault[delimiter]"
> 2) replace "Fault:" with "Fault*" where * is a character that is  
> allowed
> in URIs without escaping, allowed in XML without escaping, disallowed
> from NCName, and not a [delimiter], i.e. one of "!$'()*+,;=".
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20050413/ 
> #defactionwsdl11
>
>
>
>


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