Re: issue: support cross references within a WSDL file using ncnames?

Discussion on this topic seems to have died down. Do we have
consensus to leave intra-document cross-refs as-is with
improved wording?

Sanjiva.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Gudgin" <martin.gudgin@btconnect.com>
To: "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>; <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: issue: support cross references within a WSDL file using
ncnames?


> I would suggest we leave WSDL in line with XML Schema. In XML Schema the
> name AIIs of things are all NCNames and the names of things at the
top-level
> ( child EIIs of the schema EII ( let's forget about keys for now )) become
> part of the target namespace for that schema. So the full name of such
> constructs is a QName; {namespace name, localname}. All references in
schema
> are QNames; element refs, attribute refs, group refs, attribute group refs
> and type refs ( again leaving keys out )
>
> This AFAIR is the state of affairs in WSDL today WRT message, portType and
> binding. All of these constructs have a name AII which becomes part of the
> target namespace. message EIIs are referred to by message AIIs on input,
> output and fault EIIs. portType EIIs are referred to by the type AII on a
> binding EII. binding EIIs are referred to by the binding AII on a port
EII.
>
> The element and type AIIs on part EIIs can also be used to refer to
> constructs in XML Schema in the same way.
>
> This approach works. It's been proven to work in XML Schema. It deals well
> with constructs from multiple namespaces. It helps when building modular
> descriptions. I can't see any reason why we would want to move away from
> this.
>
> Gudge
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
> To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:34 PM
> Subject: RE: issue: support cross references within a WSDL file using
> ncnames?
>
>
> > Hmmm, I got something completely different, and less fundamental, out of
> > the discussion of this issue at the FTF.
> >
> >   <definitions name="StockQuote"
> >       targetNamespace="http://example.com/stockquote.wsdl"
> >       xmlns:tns="http://example.com/stockquote.wsdl"
> >       ...>
> >     <portType name="StockQuotePortType"
> >       ...
> >     </portType>
> >     <binding name="StockQuoteSoapBinding" type="tns:StockQuotePortType">
> >       ...
> >     </binding>
> >     ...
> >   </definitions>
> >
> > What I thought Keith said at the FTF is that it is common to forget the
> > "tns:" in the binding/type attribute.  The type attribute looks like a
> > reference to the name attribute, but the lexical values don't match.
> > That is, the targetNamespace attribute acts as a kind of default
> > namespace for name attributes, but not for type attributes.  It's a bit
> > confusing that xmlns declarations aren't used for placing something in
> > the namespace, but they are used for referring to that something.  The
> > redundancy of the information carried by the targetNamespace and
> > xmlns:tns attributes clearly shows that parallel mechanisms are
> > employed.
> >
> > Some possible (mostly syntactic) solutions are:
> > 1) Make both name and type QNames.  But then it's different from XML
> > Schema.
> > 2) Make both name and type NCNames.  But then it's different from XML
> > Schema.
> > 3) Make the type attribute recognize the default namespace of the WSDL
> > document -- I think that's the suggestion in the issue text.  But then
> > it's not a real xs:QName.
> > 4) Make sure the spec or primer addresses this point of confusion
> > thoroughly.  But then who reads the spec :-).
> >
> > Did I totally miss Keith's point?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:sanjiva@watson.ibm.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:21 PM
> > > To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
> > > Subject: issue: support cross references within a WSDL file using
> > ncnames?
> > >
> > > The WG would like to solicit your comments on whether we should
> > > support references within a WSDL document with just an NCName
> > > instead of always requiring a QName.
> > >
> > > Here's the issue from the latest part1 document:
> > >
> > > <issue id="issue-references-with-qname">
> > >   <head>Should intra-namespace references using only localParts be
> > >         supported?</head>
> > >   WSDL 1.1 requires all references to be QNames. For example, a
> > >   reference to a portType from a binding element must always use
> > >   a QName even if that portType is in the same namespace and even
> > >   if it is defined in the same document. It would be convenient
> > >   to support local part references for intra-namespace references.
> > >   <source>Sanjiva Weerawarana</source>
> > > </issue>
> > >
> > > Sanjiva.
> >

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