RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encoding from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on 2001-12-12 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from December 2001)

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:45:12 -0800
To: "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>, "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
Cc: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>, "Noah Mendelsohn" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com>, "jacek" <jacek@systinet.com>, "xml-dist-app" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D05A53BEF@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Yes, the SOAP encoding proper doesn't currently provide this
functionality. While guessing is a possibility, I think in general the
schema context will provide you with information about the semantics of
the link and maybe, as you mention, additional parameters like possible
representations of the referenced data etc.

Henrik

>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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