RE: Web Services Definition and XML

I am having a hard time understanding why this keeps coming up. As Dave
noted in detail, and as I have noted also, the charter is clear on this
subject. We don't really have any wiggle room here. Everybody here agreed on
the charter when they joined the group; let's move forward with XML and
URIs, and not belabor the obvious.

Requirements anyone? 

Regards,

D-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:david.orchard@bea.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:23 PM
> To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Web Services Definition and XML
> 
> 
> I wanted to discuss a specific aspect of Web Services definition on a
> separate thread, particularly the use of XML.
> 
> If one takes a look at the charter of the Web Services 
> Architecture group
> [1], the word XML is the 4th word in the text.  The first 7 sentences
> mention XML 7 times.  I'm counting as one the XML, XML 
> Namespaces, and XML
> Schema fragment.
> 
> Further, the 2nd goal is "The set of technologies identified 
> must be based
> on XML. ".
> The 6th bulleted goal is "The framework proposed must support 
> the kind of
> extensibility actually seen on the Web: disparity of document 
> formats and
> protocols used to communicate, mixing of XML vocabularies using XML
> namespaces, development of solutions in a distributed 
> environment without a
> central authority, etc. "...
> 
> The charter seems extremely clear that web services must be 
> based upon XML.
> 
> Now I'm a person that leans towards sometimes re-interpreting 
> charters, but
> I draw the line in the sand on this one.  I believe that the 
> Web Services
> definition MUST make explicit reference to XML.  Perhaps the 
> actual bits on
> the wire don't have to be XML - like using SSL or GZIP - but 
> the basis for
> the inputs and outputs of the service sure have to be XML or a well
> understood transformation.  I also include a packaging of XML 
> into something
> like MIME or DIME as being XML based.
> 
> Like I argued for URIs, I will also argue for XML in our 
> definition.  This
> is a show-stopper.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2002/01/ws-arch-charter
> 
>

Received on Monday, 4 March 2002 18:40:06 UTC