Re: issue 6712: updated proposal

+1

On 6/4/2009 4:23 PM, Doug Davis wrote:
>
> Upon thinking about 6712, I don't think the flag to indicate that Body 
> is the representation, or an instruction, needs to be anything more 
> than a boolean.  Clearly if its the data itself then the service will 
> know what to do - just store it.  If its an instruction then the QName 
> of the Body element will convey the instruction's definition.  So, my 
> new proposal is the same as the old one but with the "Dialect" 
> attribute changed to "isRepresentation".
>
> Proposal:
> Add a 'isRepresentation' attribute that explicitly tells the service
> whether or not the child of the Create element is the literal 
> representation
> of the resource or an instruction.
>
> <wst:Create isRepresentation="xs:boolean"? ...>
>   xs:any *
> </wst:Create>
>
> /wst:Create@isRepresentation
> This OPTIONAL attribute, when present and set to 'true', indicates
> that the child of this element is the initial representation of the
> new resource. When present and set to 'false' this attribute indicates
> that the child of this element is an instruction for how to create the
> new resource. The default value for this attribute is 'true'.
>
> thanks
> -Doug
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