- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:44:00 -0500
- To: cunnings@us.ibm.com
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Bob Cunnings asks: >> What is your opinion of the proposal to change: >> ..."SHOULD indicate their encoding style using >> the encodingStyle attribute" >> to >> ..."MUST indicate their encoding style using the >> encodingStyle attribute" I think you're asking me, as you're replying to my note. Honestly, I don't think that particular proposal changes things very much. Either way, if the encoding is named in the attribute, generalized SOAP processors know about it. Either way, if you leave it out, you have a perfectly legal SOAP message and the processor will take it to be unencoded. How we can prohibit someone from sending something that appears to be encoded but really isn't, I'm not sure. What would make more sense to me would be: "For (a portion of a) SOAP block or blocks to be recognizeable as encoded, the application MUSTindicate the encoding style using the encodingStyle attribute...." That would have some teeth and would be OK with me. On the other hand, I don't have much trouble with the status quo either. Thanks very much. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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