- From: Asir S Vedamuthu <asirv@webmethods.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:35:23 -0400
- To: "Jacek Kopecky" <jacek@idoox.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
<snip> [1] "There were various points that people were pointing out: 1) maybe we should also disallow forward references .. Now let me detail the points. 1) Some people felt forward references might be bad, other felt my original proposal disallowed forward references. I propose to keep forward references because they allow references from headers to body, which might be necessary for things like XMLDSIG, although any other referencing mechanism (most probably XML IDREF) could be used instead of SOAP Encoding referencing." </snip> I guess you are referring to id and href mechanism for representing multi-references. In your proposal for Issue # 30 [2], you said that "remove the mentions of the attribute information items 'id' and 'href' from sections 2 of both parts of the spec, for these are encoding-specific attributes," OK, so id and href are encoding-specific attributes. First, a question of clarification - you used the word necessary; why would XMLDSIG use SOAP Encoding specific attributes for referencing? Are they currently using it? Second, like others, I also believe that forward references are bad. 'Cos, there is very limited payoff for a big cost. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Oct/0231.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Oct/0244.html Regards, Asir S Vedamuthu webMethods, Inc. 703-460-2513 or asirv@webmethods.com http://www.webmethods.com/
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