RE: anyURI simplification

A comment on the Roy's "elegant suggestion".  I don't find it elegant at
all.  If the specification defines a base URI for that single attribute,
generic XML processors wouldn't be able to successfully use the URI, as
the base defined by the [base URI] infoset property and the "real" base
URI as defined by our spec would be different.  If what you really want
is a mixture of tokens and absolute uris, can't you express this more
directly with a union type?

 

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From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of David Orchard
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:23 PM
To: WS-Description WG
Subject: anyURI simplification

 

Hi all,

 

I'm not sure if this has been raised as an issue or not, or how we
decided to proceed.  I find two of the anyURI attribute constructs to be
overly complex, the binding:type attribute and the operation:pattern.
Currently, the spec requires URIs rather than Qnames.  In the case of
mandatory attributes, this hinders human readability - a comment that
TimBL made when WS-Security switched from QNames to URIs for some
constructs.  The Atom working group has had a similar construct for
linking with the rel attribute.  

 

Roy made an elegent suggestion to retain anyURI but make the string more
usable.  The anyURI can be a relative URI, and the base is defined by
the specification.  In our case, this would be some WSDL URI.  If the
attribute contains just a name, it's added to the default (note not the
base uri) to form the URI.  IF the attribute is an absolute URI
(determinable from the presence of ":") then the default URI is not
used.  This means that we could have <binding type="http"> or <binding
type="soap"> or <binding type="http://example.com/myfavbinding">.  

 

The same could also be used for the operation:pattern attribute.  

 

Another alternative would be to move the binding and operation to be
more strongly typed using substitution groups as proposed many moons ago
(which I still prefer).

 

Could somebody tell me what's happened with these attrs and if this has
been discussed?

 

Dave