- From: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:38:47 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Julian wrote on 10/16/2003 04:18:52 PM: > > If you're telling me that anyone can invent an element and > > DAV-validly introduce it as if under the DAV namespace, > > The WG says it's not allowed, but many companies do it. That's a fact we > can't change in practice. > > > I will quietly pick up my marbles and go figure out how to use SOAP > > (with attachments) and the Web Services stack on HTTP to do > > Document Authoring and Versioning on the web. (Such an expression > > of some level of DAV functionality is probably valuable anyway.) > > I'm not sure I follow. The way WebDAV is extensible IMHO doesn't cause any > actual problems. Please be more specific. And before promoting SOAP in a > HTTP-based WG, please make sure that you've read all related > HTTP-with-extensions-vs-SOAP propaganda :-) In particular, SOAP is like XML ... it's easy to marshall things with it because it places no semantic constraints on what you marshall ... but the result of no semantic constraints is no semantic interoperability. Cheers, Geoff
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