Re: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encoding

Congratulations for finding out what the "S" now stands for in "SOAP"! :)

On a more serious note, I think Jacek was ruling this out in his proposal [1]
(ante-penultimate paragraph), the reason being it is "too complicated".

Personnally, I would prefer us to say instead that "the type of the referenced
entity MAY be indicated by the enc:hrefType attribute".

Jean-Jacques.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Dec/0129.html


"John J. Barton" wrote:

> At 07:48 PM 12/11/2001 -0500, Mark Baker wrote:
> >An enthusiastic +1
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Somewhere in this thread I lost with whether or not
> my SOAP application would be able to predict the
> datatype of an external reference without accessing
> the resource.  I gather that the answer is "not through
> SOAP".  I can guess from the URL. I can make an extra
> element. But the system doesn't say.  Its Smalltalk,
> not Pascal.  (I'm ok with that, just unclear).
>
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