- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:46:32 -0400
- To: Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
+1 to Jacek's issue. Turns out, I raised this during the development of the 1.1 spec, and without going into private discussions, it was controversial. There were at the time others in the SOAP community who strongly preferred the more compact notation that fits within an attribute. Anyway, I did some work at that time on an alternative. I don't know whether I have the fragments lying around. In any case, they were more or less what you'd expect, using explicit markup for array bounds, etc. As I recall, it came out moderately well, with a couple of drawbacks: It is, as you would expect, more verbose. I found it quite hard to get all of schema type inheritance to work quite as I would have liked. I would have liked to come up with a sort of base array of anything that could be "refined", in the schema sense, to something like an array of "ints", which could in turn be refined to an array of subtype of int. As I vaguely recall, I could somehow get the first level of inheritance clean, but not the second. There is, of course, the major issue of breaking compatibility with SOAP 1.1, and that might be the big reason to stick with the status quo. In principle, I agree that more explicit markup would be appropriate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org> Sent by: xml-dist-app-request@w3.org 10/05/01 03:29 PM To: xml-dist-app@w3.org cc: (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/CAM/Lotus) Subject: Re: ETF: Issues related to encoding * Jacek Kopecky <jacek@idoox.com> [2001-10-04 11:38+0200] > New: > > #xx "array information is not XML-ish" xx = 144: http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues.html#x144 -- Hugo Haas - W3C mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/ - tel:+1-617-452-2092
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