RE: Section 2.15.3: {address}...otherwise empty.

Thanks, I didn't see that (and haven't stumbled across any other uses of
this convention yet).  I withdraw my comment!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto.Chinnici@Sun.COM [mailto:Roberto.Chinnici@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: Jonathan Marsh
> Cc: public-ws-desc-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Section 2.15.3: {address}...otherwise empty.
> 
> Quoting from section 2 [1]:
> 
> By convention, when specifying the mapping rules from the XML Infoset
> representation of a component to the component itself, an optional
> property that is absent in the component in question is described as
> being "empty".
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#component_model
> 
> Thanks,
> Roberto
> 
> Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> > Table 2-15 says:
> >
> > {address
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#property-
> Endpoint.address#property-Endpoint.address>}
> >
> >
> >
> > The actual value of the |address| //attribute information item// if
> > present, otherwise empty.
> >
> > Which implies the property is always present, even if it has an
empty
> > value. Yet the prose in 2.15.1 says:
> >
> > The {address
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#property-
> Endpoint.address#property-Endpoint.address>}
> > property is optional to allow for means other than IRIs to be used,
e.g.
> > a WS-Addressing Endpoint Reference [/WSA 1.0 Core
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#WSA-Core#WSA-Core>/].
It
> > is also possible that in certain scenarios an address will not be
> > required, in which case this property may not be present.
> >
> > *         {address} OPTIONAL. An //xs:anyURI//. This //xs:anyURI//
MUST
> > be an absolute IRI as defined by [/IETF RFC 3987
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#RFC3987#RFC3987>/].
If
> > present, the value of this attribute represents the network address
at
> > which the service indicated by the parent Service
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#component-
> Service#component-Service>
> > component's {interface
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#property-
> Service.interface#property-Service.interface>}
> > property is offered via the binding referred to by the {binding
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/#property-
> Endpoint.binding#property-Endpoint.binding>}
> > property.
> >
> >
> >
> > I think this implies that the "otherwise empty" is inconsistent and
> > should be removed or changed to "otherwise the property is absent"
or
> > somesuch.
> >
> >
> >
> > <From>*Jonathan Marsh*</ From>**
> >
> > <ReplyTo>jmarsh@microsoft.com <mailto:jmarsh@microsoft.com></
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> >
> > <RelatesTo>http://spaces.msn.com/members/auburnmarshes/</ RelatesTo>

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