- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:04:49 -0400
- To: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Cc: jacek@idoox.com, skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen writes:
>> I would prefer to be formal
>> about saying *what* it means
>> to act in the role of the anonymous actor,
>> rather than *how* that can be accomplished
The question, I think, is what can you say about the message path. Is it
possible that it extends beyond the node assuming the anonymous role? Is
it possible that a path like this would emerge:
A -> B -> ANON -> C -> ANON -> D
SOAP 1.1 sure seems to rule that out. It says:
"Omitting the SOAP actor attribute indicates that the recipient is the
ultimate destination of the SOAP message."
I think that pretty formally boils down to "the message path ends at the
node assuming the anonymous role. There can be no node further along the
message path, and there can therefore be no more than one node assuming
the anonymous role." I don't think that's unduly telling the node how to
do its job.
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