- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:44:20 -0500
- To: <tjewald@develop.com>
- Cc: "XMLDISTAPP" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>> So why not do away with the encodingStyle attribute altogether? It greatly facilitates the construction of middleware, especially bindings to programming languages. While it's true that SOAP processors can handle any message, with or without identified encoding, the idea is that a SOAP processor can provide a richer service when it knows the encoding. For example, many SOAP processors will do a very useful job of mapping to programming languages like Java or to ORB-like systems such as .Net. If you only know that it's XML, there tends to be less that you can do. Without the encoding, the tendency is that each SOAP application has a bit more work to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Received on Friday, 8 February 2002 23:58:40 UTC