- From: Doug Davis <dug@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:47:29 -0400
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Jay wrote: >section 4.2.3 ----> >Tagging elements in this manner assures that this change in semantics will >not be silently (and, presumably, erroneously) ignored by those who may not >fully understand it. >CONCLUSION 5: THIS IMPLIES THAT THE INTENT OF SOAP WHEN A HEADER ELEMENT >WITH >MUSTUNDERSTAND = 1 IS NOT PROCESSED BECAUSE OF AN INVALID OR >NONEXISTENT >ACTOR IS A FAULT RETURNED. As much as I want to change the behavior of the spec I think conclusion #5 is wrong. This mandate of not ignoring MU headers is limited to the processing that goes on _within_ one SOAP node not to the entire message path. On a side note, there is no way to distinguish between a valid actor that was never hit and an invalid actor - both end up with the same end result - it's ignored. -Dug
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