RE: Contradictions regarding transitivity of wsdl:import

I am satisfied with this resolution.



On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 20:43 -0700, Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> Thank you for your comment - we tracked this as a Last Call comment
> LC120 [1].  The Working Group agreed to add references from the import
> section to the QName section to clarify that wsdl:import is a forward
> declaration at the syntax level and not a component model "include".  We
> also agreed to wording changes to section 4.2 to make this clear.
> 
> If we don't hear otherwise within two weeks, we will assume this
> satisfies your concern.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/4/lc-issues/issues.html#LC120
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org]
> > On Behalf Of David Booth
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:38 AM
> > To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
> > Subject: Contradictions regarding transitivity of wsdl:import
> > 
> > 
> > Statements in Part 1 about the meaning of wsdl:import appear to be
> > contradictory.  On one hand, sec 4.2 says that wsdl:import is not
> > transitive.  On the other hand, sec 2.1.1 says there is no difference
> > between included/imported components and components derived directly
> > from a
> > WSDL 2.0 document, and this logically leads to import being
> > transitive.
> > 
> > Suppose WSDL document A imports WSDL document B, which imports WSDL
> > document C, which neither includes nor imports anything.  The
> > components of
> > C will be only the components derived directly from the XML Infoset of
> > C.  Since B imports C, clearly the set of components for B will
> > include the
> > set of components for C.  So far so good.  But A now imports B, so
> > what
> > components will A have?  We have already established that the set of
> > components of B includes the set of components from C as a subset.
> > Since
> > there is no distinction made between the subset of components that
> > originated in C and the other components, the components of A must
> > therefore also include the components of C as a subset.  This
> > contradicts
> > the statement that "wsdl:import is not transitive".
> > 
> > The basic problem here is that the spec is referring to the
> > *components* of
> > the imported document.  Those components only exist if we interpret
> > the
> > meaning of the imported document according to the WSDL 2.0
> > specification,
> > at which point there is no way to know whether those imported
> > components
> > originated in the imported document or another document
> > (transitively).
> > 
> > Here are the relevant excerpts from the spec:
> > 
> > Part 1 sec 4.2 Importing Descriptions
> > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.html?co
> > ntent-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#imports
> > second paragraph says:
> > [[
> > Components in directly imported descriptions are part of the component
> > model of the importing description. Directly imported means that
> > component
> > importation is not transitive; components imported by one of the
> > imported
> > documents are NOT available to the original importing document unless
> > the
> > are imported directly by that document.
> > ]]
> > 
> > But section 2.1.1 The Description Component
> > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.html?co
> > ntent-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#Description_details
> > sixth paragraph says:
> > [[
> > The set of interfaces/binding/services/etc. available in the
> > Description
> > component include those that are defined within the component itself
> > and
> > those that are imported and/or included. Note that at the component
> > model
> > level, there is no distinction between directly defined components vs.
> > imported/included components.
> > ]]
> > Furthermore, sec 2.1.3 Mapping Description's XML Representation to
> > Component Properties
> > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.html?co
> > ntent-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#Description_Mapping
> > also shows no distinction between components that originated in the
> > WSDL
> > 2.0 document and components that originated in an included/imported
> > document.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > David Booth
> > W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard
> > Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
> > 
> > 
> 
-- 
David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>

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