RE: Content-free Header and Body elements

I agree, subject to making sure this doesn't take us back to WD.  The 
standards for late changes in PR don't have very much wiggle room.  I 
would like to see this as editorial clarification, but some others might 
not.  Although I agree with the change, this is not worth a several 
weeks/months delay in getting to PR.  I hope the W3C process will be 
flexible enough to allow this as an editorial change on the way to Rec 
status.  If so, I'm all for it.  Otherwise, I recommende we leave it as 
is, go to Rec., and consider this as an erratum.  It's not broken as it 
is, though certainly sub-optimal.  You can always  work around for now by 
sending an empty <header>.    I don't think that in the next few months 
there will be that many cases of intermediaries wanting to add headers to 
messages that have none.   Bottom line, this is not worth a delay of weeks 
or months.  It is worth fixing ASAP.  Agreed?

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Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
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05/16/2003 11:02 AM

 
        To:     Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>
        cc:     "Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM" <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>, Christopher B Ferris 
<chrisfer@us.ibm.com>, "xml-dist-app@w3.org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>, (bcc: 
Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM)
        Subject:        RE: Content-free Header and Body elements



> I think this text nails it.

Not quite.

> > 3. Element information items for additional header blocks MAY
> > be added to the [children] property of the SOAP Header
> > element information item as detailed in 2.7.2 SOAP Forwarding
> > Intermediaries. In this case, a SOAP Header element
> > information item MAY be added if not already present.

[children] is an ordered list, right?  So the Header EII "may be inserted
before the Body EII" is probably what it should say.

        /r$
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