default interface/operation/@pattern

• From: Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:06:39 +0600
• To: <public-ws-desc-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <099f01c4bc3e$f3237d00$c24f4109@LANKABOOK>

We would like to see the "pattern" attribute of "operation" elements
defaulted based on the contained <input> and <output> elements for
those patterns where that is unambiguously possible. The component 
model will continue to have the current behavior - this is only
a syntactic convenience.

Requiring all users to remember the values of the pattern URIs 
when the value is patently obvious from the <input> and/or
<output> elements makes the language overly cumbersome with 
no value. We would like this extra complexity removed.

Note that this is only a default - if someone else were to define
a pattern with only one <input> and no <output>s then they can
still live happily with the user explicitly setting the value.

Sanjiva, on behalf of IBM.

Received on Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:07:17 UTC