- From: Jeffrey Schlimmer <jeffsch@windows.microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:20:29 -0700
- To: "Eliezer Birinbom" <Eliezerb@matrix.co.il>
- Cc: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> From: Eliezer Birinbom [mailto:Eliezerb@matrix.co.il] > > This looks great. Finally something to hold on to. > Do you have any idea when will this proposal move forward ? The W3C XML Protocol working group has decided to make this the basis for their work on attachments and has begun discussing issues. > I am currently in the begging of the process of defining the standards for > an integration project for one of our customers. > The general giudeline for my work is to use the GXA specs, and the reason > I feel we might need something like WS-Attachments is for passing small, > non XML, text data in the body of the SOAP message. If you only have small quantities of non-XML data, you should consider base64 encoding the data and including it directly in the SOAP Envelope; any inefficiencies are minimized with small data, and base64 data has the benefit of being fully standard and supported now. > The people form Microsoft in Israel are urging me to implement WS- > Attachment. They are saying that the expiry date is irrelevant, and that > WS-Attachments is a standard that is already implemented by Microsoft and > IBM. Judging by the SOAP Builders tests, there are a number of interoperable WS-Attachment implementations; however, I do not know of any plans to standardize it. > From: Jeffrey Schlimmer [mailto:jeffsch@windows.microsoft.com] > > You may wish to review a recent proposal to the W3C XML Protocol WG: > > http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/jeffsch/paswa/paswa61.html
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