RE: Issue 30: Action item 2001/06/20

We only have to deal with XML Base if we think SOAP 1.2 should support
it.  Personally, I do not think this is mandatory for SOAP 1.2
especially since SOAP 1.1 did fine without refering to XML Base.

I suggest you open a new issue about XML Base support if you think its
support is mandatory.  It is really orthogonal to Issue 30.

/paulc

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada 
17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3 
Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329 
<mailto:pcotton@microsoft.com> 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: christopher ferris [mailto:chris.ferris@east.sun.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:28 PM
> To: Paul Cotton
> Cc: W3C XML Protocol IG (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Issue 30: Action item 2001/06/20
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Just a nit.
> 
> The href attribute should be of type "anyURI" as defined in 
> XML schema datatypes.
> 
> It seems to me that we need to address any implications of XML Base
> on the value of the href attribute if it isn't expressed as an 
> absolute URI. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> Paul Cotton wrote:
> > 
> > Action item 2001/06/20 asked me to clarify Issue 30 [1].  This issue
> > originated in my email [2] that outlined how SOAP 1.1 meet the XML
> > Protocol R4xxx Requirements:
> > 
> > "R403
> > ----
> > Requirement: Data serialized according to the XML Protocol data
> > representation may contain references to data outside the 
> serialization.
> > These references must be Uniform
> > Resource Identifiers (URIs).
> > 
> > Comment: The SOAP/1.1 encoding uses the "id" and "href" 
> attributes to
> > name
> > and refer to resources or sub-parts of resources. The 
> format of the href
> > attribute is of type "uri-reference" as defined by XML 
> schema. The "id"
> > attribute is of type "ID" as defined by XML/1.0. There are no
> > restrictions
> > on the value of a URI used as value in a href attribute.
> > 
> > Judgement: SOAP/1.1 covers this requirement although it is not
> > explicitly
> > stated that URIs can in fact point to anything."
> > 
> > Issue 30 Clarification:
> > In my opinion, the only point that we want to clarify (and 
> it is only a
> > clarification) is that a consequence of using URIs is that they can
> > point to anything and not only within the same document (of 
> the style
> > #foo). Some implementers may be surprised that the value of the href
> > attribute could be something like 
> "http://www.foo.com/some.doc" if we do
> > not point this out in a clarification. In addition we might want to
> > indicate that they can point to an attachment to the SOAP 
> message [3].
> > In both of the latter cases we want to be sure to indicate 
> that these
> > URI's point outside of the current SOAP message.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues#x30
> > [2] 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Feb/0045.html
> > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments
> > 
> > Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> > 17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3
> > Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329
> > <mailto:pcotton@microsoft.com>
>

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