Re: WSDL Import with just a location attribute

Hi Arthur,

Thanks a lot for your response.
Actually, I am in absolute congruence with you on the current semantics of
import.
My question [might be extremely silly, but I am just trying to convince
myself :-( ] is on the lines of
What is the rationale behind choosing to use <import> as a declaration thats
used only for importing namespaces ? Why cant it be on documents as well ?
Doesnt import of a document correspond indirectly to the import of the
tasrget namespace of the document - or rather why cant we assume that intent
?

b) Is it true that in majority of the use-cases,
  i) It makes the job easier for the processing application to define its
own way of discovering the actual documents imported into the main
document corresponding to the namespaces defined in the import ? or rather,
is it the case that in majority of the use-cases, the processing application
does not use the location attribute of the <import> ?
 ii) Are the imported documents usually not known at design time ? If they
can be discovered at designtime, wdnt it be an easier task to specify the
location within the wsdl directly ?

rgds,
Ram

On 7/13/06, Arthur Ryman <ryman@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Ram,
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> The <import> element is a declaration that the document references
> components from another namespace. It imports the namespace, not a document.
> The location attribute is just a hint of where to find the definitions of
> the components in the namespace.
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> If you just want in bring in the contents of a document, use <include> but
> that requires that the included document have the same namespace.
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> We decided to make targetNamespace required to simplify the spec and avoid
> problems found with WSDL 1.1 where targetnamespace was optional. For
> example, targetname typically maps to a package name when generating code
> and the way "default" packages are handled by various tools is patchy.
>
> Arthur Ryman,
> IBM Software Group, Rational Division
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>   *"Ramkumar Menon" <ramkumar.menon@gmail.com>*
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> WSDL Import with just a location attribute
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> Hi Gurus,
> What is fundamentally wrong with an import of a document, rather than
> a foreign namespace, into a WSDL Document ?
> If I translate my thoughts into syntax,
> why is
> <wsdl:import location="http://www.twinktwinklilstar.com/wsdls/star.wsdl"/>
> so unholy ?
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> Why not accept this variant ["of course", in addition to the existing
> version] as a valid wsdl import ? If not, what's the strong reason
> against this?
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> One more question - why is targetNamespace attribute for WSDL 2.0
> documents mandatory ? Is it a WS-I issue ?
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> rgds,
> Ram
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