- From: Mark Jones <jones@research.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Here's my proposed preamble text for the requirements doc. (TBD -- where/how the text would actually be stitched into the current requirements draft.) Mark Jones AT&T ================================================================ Preamble The requirements set below were shaped by the context of several influential developments. The non-standard, but widely adopted, "SOAP Messages with Attachments" (SwA) specification [1] provided a MIME multipart/related packaging scheme that related accompanying "entities" (including binary data) to a SOAP 1.1 message via referencing rules. The SwA approach did not, however, naturally integrate attachments into the SOAP processing model and the XML Infoset representation of a SOAP message. The PASWA document [2], a "Proposed Infoset Addendum to SOAP Messages with Attachments", offered a more unified approach by suggesting that the accompanying entities be logically considered a part of the SOAP message XML Infoset, while retaining the flexibility for implementations to optimize their behavior. The requirements listed below are an attempt to capture both the characteristics of the PASWA model and the constraints embodied in the various use cases that motivate the inclusion of entities in SOAP messages. [1] W3C Note "SOAP Messages with Attachments", John J. Barton, Satish Thatte, and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, 11 December 2000, http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-attachments-20001211. [2] "Proposed Infoset Addendum to SOAP Messages with Attachments", Adam Bosworth, Don Box, Martin Gudgin, Mark Jones, Franz-Josef Fritz, Amy Lewis, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Mark Nottingham, David Orchard, Hervé Ruellan, Jeffrey Schlimmer, Volker Wiechers, Version 0.61 Draft, 1 April 2003, http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/jeffsch/paswa/paswa61.html.
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