RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encodi ng (fwd)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Mendelsohn [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:01 PM
> To: henrikn@microsoft.com
> Cc: chris.ferris; jacek; xml-dist-app; xml-dist-app-request
> Subject: RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in
> Encoding (fwd)
> 

> > "The href attribute can in fact point to anything at all and
> >it's the pointee's responsibility to provide it's type
> >information. (In case of XML, type can be gotten from a schema
> >or from the xsi:type attribute inf. item, in other cases by
> >other means.)"
> 
> I think the technical proposal is fine.  I suggest a little editorial
> cleanup as the wording above seems a bit informal for a 
> specification.  I

Here's a quick attempt at translating it into spec-ese:

"The SOAP 1.2 specification does not constrain the type of resource
referenced by the href attribute. It is the responsibility of the target
resource to define any type information.  In the case of XML, the type can
be defined by an XML schema associated with the target resource, or by the
xsi:type information item.  For non-XML target resources, other means to
define the type will have to be provided outside the SOAP framework."

Use, revise, or ignore as you see fit ...

Received on Tuesday, 18 December 2001 18:51:30 UTC