- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:35:38 -0500
- To: "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: jones@research.att.com, "Martin Gudgin" <mgudgin@microsoft.com>, "Rich Salz" <rsalz@datapower.com>, "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
John Barton wrote: > As far as I can tell what Martin is asking for is what > we might call a "manifest". By manifest I mean an XML > representation of the package metadata accessible by > SOAP processing code. At one point we considered this > in SwA but decided that it would be better layered > separate from the package. Conceptually the manifest > allows a software component to preprocess the message > for completeness and security independent of the > message semantics in the same way that a shipping > manifest works on physical goods. I believe that the > ebXML folks had a manifest. I'm 90% sure that Gudge wants the attachment data as well as metadata integrated into the Envelope infoset model. > If this isn't what Martin meant, then hit delete now ;-) Uh... > John. Noah ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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