- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:13:32 -0500
- To: moreau@crf.canon.fr
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Thanks. Actually, the latest WD sometimes refers to multiple forms ("If
MU is "true" or "1""). I think we can take that down to one form ("if MU
is "true"") and then use the proposal as I suggest below. Thanks.
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"Jean-Jacques Moreau" <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
12/20/2001 07:11 AM
To: Noah Mendelsohn/CAM/Lotus@Lotus
cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Subject: Re: Two issues to be opened relating to my rewrite for Issue 101 (and one
more already resolved)
+1 for the resolution on your first issue (excerpt appended below)
noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> * For envelope attributes, we should use the proper XML Schemas simple
type
> terminology, carefully indicate when we are referring to lexical vs.
value
> space, and if a subtype is used (e.g. a boolean that only accepts
lexical
> form "1"), make clear that we are doing so.
>
> We do not currently have an issue open on this. I propose that we open
> such an issue and resolve it along the following lines: we should
> indicate, probably in chapter 4, that "attributes in the SOAP envelope
> described by "Part 1: Framework" are are of types from XML Schema:
> Datatypes (e.g. mustUnderstand is a boolean). Unless otherwise stated,
all
> lexical forms are supported for each such attribute, and lexical forms
> representing the same value in the XML Schema value space are considered
> equivalent for purposes of SOAP processing. Thus, the boolean lexical
> forms "1" and "true" [ref to boolean datatype in the schema spec] are
> interchangeable. For brevity, text in this specification refers only to
> one lexical form for each value (e.g. "if the value of mustUnderstand is
> "true"). Unless otherwise stated, such references implicitly cover all
> forms corresponding to the same value in the value space. However, when
a
> header block is relayed by an intermediary [see section 2.6], the
lexical
> form of any attributes within that block MUST be preserved. "
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