- From: Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:29:14 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com>
- CC: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, "Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > 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. Aren't we already doing that with the xmime:MediaType attribute? -Anish -- > > 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. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 >> IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 >> One Rogers Street >> Cambridge, MA 02142 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com> >> Sent by: xml-dist-app-request@w3.org >> 07/29/2003 05:43 PM >> >> >> To: "Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org> >> cc: (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM) >> Subject: Optimisations other than Base64 >> >> >> >> I took an action item at the F2F to raise a new issue. >> >> 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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