- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:41:42 -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. For completeness, I'll mention here what has been discussed ad nauseum on XML-DEV. The most effective way out of this limbo is a specification for an instance-level ID attrbibute type declaration, such as the <?xml-id-attr "foo bar"?> or xml:id-attr="foo bar" proposals that have been made by Tim Bray, John Cowan, James Clark, and others. -- 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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