- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:38:11 -0800
- To: "Marc Hadley" <marc.hadley@sun.com>, "Martin Gudgin" <marting@develop.com>, "Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "XML Protocol Discussion" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Proposal [10] for dealing with issue 177 [11] suggests that section 3.6 either be removed or downgraded to a note rather than a section. Henrik Frystyk Nielsen mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com [10] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Feb/0089.html [11] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues#x177 >-----Original Message----- >From: Marc Hadley [mailto:marc.hadley@sun.com] >Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 02:59 >To: Martin Gudgin >Cc: XML Protocol Discussion >Subject: Re: SOAP Encoding: Default values > > >I think its trying to say: An omitted accessor is equivalent to an >included accessor with an xsi:nil attribute. The interpretation is >application dependent. > >Typical interpretation would be to substitue NULL or some application >dependent default value. > >Marc. > >Martin Gudgin wrote: > >> Section 3.6[1] of Part 2[2] states; >> >> 'An omitted accessor element implies either a default value >or that no >> value is known. The specifics depend on the accessor, >method, and its >> context. For example, an omitted accessor typically implies a Null >> value for polymorphic accessors (with the exact meaning of Null >> accessor-dependent). Likewise, an omitted Boolean accessor typically >> implies either a False value or that no value is known, and >an omitted >> numeric accessor typically implies either that the value is zero or >> that no value is known.' I'm not convinced that this text is at all >> useful. It seems to say >> >> 'If the accessor isn't there, then any number of things might be >> true...' and doesn't say much about what those things might be. >> >> What is the paragraph *supposed* to be saying? >> >> Gudge >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/11/10/soap12-part2.xml#IDA5FQLB >> >> [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/11/10/soap12-part2.xml >>
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