RE: Draft wording for <import>

+1

After some conversations at SoapBuilders Interop Forum III, I believe
these are some of the most relevant questions that need clarification.
Additionally, it appears that almost all implementations invoke
differing procedures/methodology to resolve many of the questions (which
clearly indicates a lack of consensus).

-Matt Long
Phalanx Systems, LLC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org]
On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Marsh
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:01 PM
> To: Web Service Description
> Subject: RE: Draft wording for <import>
> 
> Sorry for the novice questions, but:
> 
> - How are conflicts (e.g. name conflicts) with the imported
declarations
> resolved?
> 
> - How are loops detected and processed?
> 
> - How are declarations in an imported resource detected?  What if the
> declarations are embedded in another namespace?
> 
> I thought answers to these kind of questions were the purpose of
> clarifying import.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jean-Jacques Moreau [mailto:moreau@crf.canon.fr]
> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:04 AM
> > To: Web Service Description
> > Subject: Draft wording for <import>
> >
> > I took a todo to provide resolution text for the
> > improved-wording-for-import issue. I wasn't here when the actual
> > issue was discussed, so I hope the text below properly addresses
> > the issues which were raised. Comments, flames, etc at the usual
> > address.
> >
> > Jean-Jacques.
> >
> > ----------------------
> >
> > 2.1.1 Document Naming
> >
> > The <el>definitions</el> element information item:
> >
> >    * MUST have a [local name] of <el>definitions</el>.
> >    * MUST have a [namespace name] of
> >      <attval>http://www.w3.org/2002/06/wsdl</attval>.
> >    * MAY have a <att>name</att> attribute information item of
> >      type <att>NCName</att> in the namespace named
> >      <attval>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</attval>. Its value
> >      serves as a lightweight form of documentation.
> >    * MAY have a <att>targetNamespace</att> attribute information
> >      item of type <att>anyURI</att> in the namespace named
> >      <attval>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</attval>. Its
> >      actual value MUST NOT be a relative URI.
> >
> > 2.1.2 Document Linking [ed: split from above section]
> >
> > The WSDL <el>import</el> element information item allows the
> > separation of the different elements of a service definition into
> > independent documents, which can be imported as needed. This
> > technique helps writing clearer service definitions, by
> > separationg the definitions according to their level of
> > abstraction, and maximizes resusability. The WSDL <el>import</el>
> > element information item is modelled after the XML Schema
> > <el>import</el> element information item (see [ref XML Schema
> > Part 1, section 4.2.3 "References to schema components across
> > namespaces"]).
> >
> > The <el>import</el> element information item has:
> >
> >    * A [local name] of <el>import</el>.
> >    * A [namespace name] of
> >      <attval>http://www.w3.org/2002/06/wsdl</attval>.
> >    * An attribute information item with a [local name] of
> >      <att>namespace</att>
> >    * A <att>namespace</att> attribute information item of type
> >      <att>anyURI</att> in the namespace named
> >      <attval>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</attval>. Its
> >      actual value indicates that the containing WSDL document can
> >      contain qualified references to WSDL definitions in that
> >      namespace (via one or more prefixes declared with namespace
> >      declarations in the normal way). This value MUST NOT match
> >      the actual value of the enclosing WSDL document
> >      <att>targetNamespace</att> attribute information item. It
> >      MUST be identical to the actual value of the referred WSDL
> >      document <att>targetNamespace</att>.
> >    * A <att>location</att> attribute information item of type
> >      <att>anyURI</att> in the namespace named
> >      <attval>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</attval>. Its
> >      actual value is the location of a well-formed WSDL (or
> >      other) document with definitions for that namespace.
> >
> > An <att>import</att> element information item MUST NOT be present
> > when there is no <att>targetNamespace</att> attribute information
> > item in the containing WSDL document.
> >
> > The WSDL <el>import</el> element information item MAY reference:
> >
> >    * All standard WSDL definitions, such as service, port,
> >      message, bindings and portType.
> >    * Any XML namespace qualified extensibility definitions.
> >
> > <note>The components to be imported MAY NOT be in the form of a
> > WSDL document. A WSDL processor is free to access of construct
> > components using means of itw own choosing.</note>[ed: this is in
> > XSD; do we want this as well?]
> >
> > [ed: move the following to the primer?]
> > Example 2 below uses the <el>import</el> element information item
> > to separate the definitions from Example 1 into three separate,
> > more manageable documents: data type definitions, abstract
> > definitions and specific service bindings.
> >
> > <quote>
> > http://example.com/stockquote/stockquote.xsd
> > http://example.com/stockquote/stockquote.wsdl
> > http://example.com/stockquote/stockquoteservice.wsdl
> > </quote>

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