Re: treatment of ns prefixes by intermediaries

This may be of interest:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Sep/0187.html

Since the SOAP envelope is in theory regenerated at each hop in a 
message path then does it make sense for the Envelope namespace prefix 
to be preserved since it is a new message each time?

RC

> 
> > This question came up during an implementer's interop test session: Is an
> > intermediary obliged to preserve namespace prefixes? The spec says nothing
> > explicitly (that we could find) but appears to implicitly oblige
> > intermediaries to preserve them. What did the WG intend?
> 
> Since [prefix] is an EII I would assume it's preserved.
> 
> If not, then signatures break.
> 	/r$

Received on Friday, 7 February 2003 13:50:45 UTC