Re: Issue 107: Clarify the terms application, actor & related notions of identity.

Eric Jenkins wrote:
> Second, the specification is somewhat unclear about the effect that the
> ACTOR attribute has on header processing.  In Section 4.2, the third
> encoding rule states that, "The SOAP actor attribute (see section 4.2.2) and
> SOAP mustUnderstand attribute (see section 4.2.3) MAY be used to indicate
> which SOAP module will process the SOAP header block, and how it will be
> processed (see section 4.2.1)."
> This could be read to imply that both attributes affect how the header will
> be processed. Assuming that this is not our intent, I recommend that we make
> two changes.  First, modify the above statement to include the word,
> "respectively". 
> 
In the infoset-based rewrite[1] of section 4.2, this paragraph has been 
removed entirely so the problem and suggested remedy no longer apply.

Regards,
Marc.

[1] http://www/w3/org/2000/xp/Group/1/06/01/soap-02-infoset.html
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Received on Monday, 6 August 2001 07:16:54 UTC