[Bug 9700] Mex: Introduce a mechanism allowing the service not to return the metadata in the requested content format, while indicating that other formats are available

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9700





--- Comment #2 from Ram Jeyaraman <ram.jeyaraman@microsoft.com>  2010-05-12 23:45:13 ---
Thanks for submitting the issue. The WG discussed this and decided to close
this issue with no action.

The compliance section of every specification states that an optional element
of a request MUST be able to be handled by a server, unless the specification
has specific text allowing it as a server option.

This is because the WG felt that since the specification currently states [1]
that when the Content attribute is not present it defaults to any content type.
This allows a client to NOT use the Content attribute that would allow the
service to send back the metadata in any content type/format. Hence, there is
no need for a fault for the service to indicate it does not support a
particular
content type. Thus, a profile could remove the use of Content attribute by a
client allowing a service to return any content type.  [1] “When not present
the default value is
"http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/edcopies/ws-mex/Content/Any".

Further, if the client wants a particular content type or format, it can
request that by specifying that in the GetMetadata request.

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Received on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 23:45:15 UTC