- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:23:25 -0800
- To: "'Henrik Frystyk Nielsen'" <henrikn@microsoft.com>, "'Noah Mendelsohn'" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "'Andrew Layman'" <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'jacek'" <jacek@systinet.com>, "'xml-dist-app'" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: xml-dist-app-request@w3.org > [mailto:xml-dist-app-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of Henrik Frystyk Nielsen > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:01 PM > To: David Orchard; Noah Mendelsohn; Andrew Layman > Cc: jacek; xml-dist-app > Subject: RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in > Encoding > <snip/> > > > I understand people's motivations - I had them myself at one > >point - but IMHO there is no easy/reasonable/useful thing to > >do given our schedule. > > I agree and on a slightly more serious note, I would from a > general Web > architecture point of view suggest that we not go down this particular > slippery slope. > > Henrik > That's certainly my position on this issue. And on an even slightly more serious note, I'm not sure that I would want the TAG to tackle this issue. Though the TAG could(should?) identify this as an open issue for the web architecture. I just don't see a reasonable solution. I have visions of CORBA externalization with double de-referencing and other nasty surprises. Dave
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