Bijan, Let me explain the XML Infoset versus Component thing. A URI-Reference is a URI and a fragment. If the URI is used to retrieve a WSDL document (as an XML Infoset) then the fragment refers to some element information item (EII). That is why we register the fragment syntax with the IANA media registration for application/wsdl+xml. If the URI is the namespace of a WSDL document then the fragment identifies a component in the WSDL component model for that namespace. We sometimes refer to this case as the component designator case. The two cases are consistent when the namespace actually dereferences to the WSDL document, i.e. the EII maps to the component. BTW, one thing I still don't understand is why the parens cause a parsing problem. The XPointer syntax results in balanced parens so it should be easy to parse, e.g. when the URI-Reference is the argument of some function call. Arthur Ryman, IBM Software Group, Rational Division blog: http://ryman.eclipsedevelopersjournal.com/ phone: +1-905-413-3077, TL 969-3077 assistant: +1-905-413-2411, TL 969-2411 fax: +1-905-413-4920, TL 969-4920 mobile: +1-416-939-5063, text: 4169395063@fido.ca Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu> 10/13/2005 04:13 PM To Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> cc public-ws-desc-comments@w3.org, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-ws-desc-comments-request@w3.org, Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>, Arthur Ryman/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> Subject Re: simple case of IRIs for Components in WSDL 2.0 Oh, and duh. WSDL is an XML thing. These fragments are being used to identify subresources of WSDL. That the *user* of them might not be XML is irrelevant. So pointing to my papers was a bit of a red herring. Even if XPointer *is* an XML thing, it's an interface to an XML thing and this exactly what we're doing, supplying identifiers for parts of an XML (though I'm still confused about Infoset items vs. components) thing. See my quotation of the definition of "application". Cheers, Bijan.
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