- From: John J. Barton <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 14:01:22 -0800
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.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
So Martin you want to define a synthetic infoset (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#intro.synthetic) for the attachment specification? At 03:35 PM 2/3/2003 -0500, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >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 >------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________ John J. Barton email: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Barton/index.htm MS 1U-17 Hewlett-Packard Labs 1501 Page Mill Road phone: (650)-236-2888 Palo Alto CA 94304-1126 FAX: (650)-857-5100
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