- From: Martin Gudgin <marting@develop.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:02:04 +0100
- To: "Rich Salz" <rsalz@zolera.com>
- Cc: "W3C XP" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Salz" <rsalz@zolera.com> To: "Martin Gudgin" <marting@develop.com> Cc: "W3C XP" <xml-dist-app@w3.org> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 9:44 PM Subject: Re: Comments and element content for serialization > > Strictly > > Well, that *is* the point of a spec, isn't it. :) > > > according to Section 5 the 'ia' element would need to be of type > > Array in the http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ namespace or of a > > type derived from that type. > > That's how I read it. But when one of the real authorities (I'm only a > nit-picker, myself :) says Sec5 allows all that schema allows, I needed > to double-check. Section 5 allows what schema allows WRT simple types. > > So an XSD->SOAP translator should raise an error if min/max occurs are > other than [0,1] and the element has any siblings. If you are serializing according to section 5, yes. > > But I don't think the question in the subject line has been given a > definitive answer yet. What does soap say about comments in element > content? That is, is "1<!--x-->2" a legal serialization for the number > 12? For the two-character text string "12"? SOAP says nothing. I think the above would be a legal serialization of; the integer 12 the decimal 12 the single precision floating point value 12 the double precision floating point value 12 the string "12" and any other datatype that allows such a lexical representation. Gudge
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