Re: Optimisations other than Base64

I agree that one *could* model this as sending the type information. 
However, one could also model it as encoding information that happens 
to, sometimes, correspond to the types evident in the message.

The key question, to me, is whether or not it's desirable to always 
surface the encoding/type information in the Infoset.

Cheers,


On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 03:49 PM, noah_mendelsohn@bea.com wrote:

> Right.  I think we need to also relate this to the ongoing analysis of 
> the
> XQuery/XPath data model.  That model provides for all legal schema 
> types.
> So, we need to consider all of these aspects of the question.  Then 
> again,
> it seems to me that the tough question is going to be, whether for 
> base64
> only or for more types: what do you reconstruct at the receiver, and 
> what
> are the intermediary rules.  One might take the view that optimizing 
> more
> than one type encourages one to send the actual type label as part of 
> the
> model.  Certainly the XQuery model suggests that the type information 
> is
> first class in the model, and not just plumbing for the optimization.  
> I
> think that will be one of the main interesting questions for the 
> subgroup
> that explores the multitype question.
>
> In any case, thanks for openning the issue.  Cheers.
>
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>         To:     "Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>         cc:     (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM)
>         Subject:        Optimisations other than Base64
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> I took an action item at the F2F to raise a new issue.
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> 1. Should MTOM accommodate encodings/optimizations other than base64?
>     a. If so, should the list be open-ended (i.e., extensible)?
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