Re: WSDL Import/Include Locations

Arthur Ryman wrote:

>
> Gudge,
>
> I think we need to specify that it is an error to import or include 
> two inequivalent definitions of the same component. A processor should 
> therefore not non-deterministically ignore imports since that will 
> lead to noninteroperability, i.e. one vendor may ignore an 
> incompatible definition while another raises it as an error.
>
> In general, I think we need to tradeoff flexibility in favour of 
> interoperability, which means that we need to specify behavoir more 
> tightly. 


+1.

>
>
> Arthur Ryman,
> Rational Desktop Tools Development
>
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>
> www-ws-desc-request@w3.org wrote on 02/18/2004 09:53:37 AM:
>
> >
> > I would expect a schema processor to deal with multiple imports of the
> > same namespace, perhaps by ignoring all but the first that resolves to a
> > set of schema components.
> >
> > Given that the spec does not rule out multiple import elements with the
> > same value for their namespace attribute I would expect a WSDL processor
> > to do the same.
> >
> > Gudge


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