Re: Should WSDL say anything about whitespace in SOAP:Body?

"Jacek Kopecky" <jacek.kopecky@systinet.com> writes:
> 
> it was noted on the soapbuilders list that there are some interop
> problems regarding whitespace handling in SOAP Body. 

Could you expand on what some of the issues were please?

> I believe this is
> an issue for WSDL because for SOAP, whatever is in the Body, belongs to
> the application.
>
> WSDL describes in its SOAP binding what the Body will look like,
> therefore it probably should say something about whether whitespace
> characters can be children of the Body and how they are treated. 
> 
> I consider this an issue against the SOAP binding.

Why? I thought that that's the role of XSD in WSDL .. to describe
the structure of what the soap:Body will look like; all WSDL does
is say "its that element."

Sanjiva.

Received on Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:33:14 UTC