Re: issue: optional "name" attribute of <definition> from Joyce Yang on 2002-06-25 (www-ws-desc@w3.org from June 2002)

From: Joyce Yang <joyce.yang@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:12:30 -0700
To: Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>
CC: "WS-Desc WG (Public)" <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3D18B28E.99277019@oracle.com>

The name attribute will be useful if the WSDL document has a set of
definitions. Although I haven't seen a wsdl with multiple definitions,
there might be a use case.

-Joyce

Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:

> This is somewhat related to the "targetNamespace" issue that Gudge
> posted about.
>
> <issue id="issue-remove-optional-name-of-definition">
>   <head>Should we remove the optional name attribute of
>   &lt;definitions&gt;?</head>
>
>   WSDL 1.1 has an optional attribute on definitions which is defined
>   as being used to provide a lightweight form of documentation. I would
>   like to remove that as its not clear that that has been useful or
>   used.
>   <source>Sanjiva Weerwarana</source>
> </issue>
>
> Can we get consensus on removing this? I haven't seen any real use
> of this attribute so far.
>
> Sanjiva.

Received on Tuesday, 25 June 2002 14:12:18 UTC