- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:09:08 -0700
- To: "Jacek Kopecky" <jacek@systinet.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
For the record, I concur with this sentiment - thanks for writing it up. Henrik > Hi all, since I won't be able to attend the following two >telcons, I'd like to state my position on one of the remaining >two issues - 194 - encodingStyle attribute on Envelope, Header. > I believe that the attribute has no meaning on Envelope and >Header and that using it there is wrong (although I recognize >it's currently being used in this way). > I think the spec needs to be changed at least to remove the >inconsistency between prose and schema. > There has been a proposal by Henrik [1] to remove the attribute >altogether and I support this course because encodingStyle is not >widely employed (it's mentioned in messages and it may be checked >for, but it's not widely used to do meaningful stuff), it is >underspecified (What is a data encoding anyway? What can it do to >the message? What is the meaning of changing encodingStyle in the >middle of the XML tree? Where does encodingStyle apply?) and at >least in some implementations (including Systinet's WASP) it >isn't necessary for proper functioning. > We have already reduced the attribute from being a list of URIs >to a single URI for some similar reasons (see issues 159 [2] and >166 [3]). >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Apr/0294.html >[2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues.html#x159 >[3] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues.html#x166
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