- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:33:48 -0600
- To: "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>
- cc: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, www-ws-desc@w3.org
> > As an interested outsider, I prefer the wording you suggest, David. > > I think that requiring the name attributes of WSDL elements to be > > unique would be sufficient. I think it would be dangerous to fix on > > a particular system for ensuring this, because, unfortunately, ID > > attributes are in a bit of practical limbo these days. Just making > > this a normative clause in the WSDL spec should do the trick. > > I doubt that IDs are dead. I didn't say they are dead, just that their status is in a practical limbo. The many tortured threads on how to fix this limbo on XML-DEV are ample fuel for this opinion. An ID technically requires a DTD or XSD declaration, neither of which are so far required by WSDL. > The notion of having a schema/DTD enforced > document-wide unique identifier is central to many popular > applications, including XHTML. Yes. And XHTML requires DTD for this many reason (among others), and Ann Navarro of the XHTML WG recently sent a message on XML-DEV affirming that XHTML will have this dependence for a while. I don't know that you want to require doctype declaration or schema location specification on WSDL documents, which previously did not have this restriction. > Whatever recommendation eventually > addreses this functionality will need to address XML 1.1 IDs. I would > like to use IDs so that our definitions addressed by such a > recommendation. But you have to say exactly what IDs you mean. DTD? XSD? -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant Fourthought, Inc. uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com http://Fourthought.com +1 720 320 2046 XML strategy, XML tools (http://4Suite.org), knowledge management Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/ RDF Query using Versa - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-thi nk10/index.html WSDL and the Wild, Wild West - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6004 XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel
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