Binding framework & XML Version / Infoset

In Part 1, section 4:
<<
A SOAP binding specification:
[..]
* Describes how the services of the underlying protocol are used to transmit
  SOAP message infosets.
>>>
And then in 4.2:
<<<
The binding framework does not require that every binding use the XML 1.0
[XML 1.0]  serialization as the "on the wire" representation of the XML
infoset; compressed, encrypted, fragmented representations and so on can
be used if appropriate. A binding, if using XML 1.0 serialization of the
XML infoset, MAY mandate that a particular character encoding or set of
encodings be used.
>>>

So it looks like the default is to provide XML 1.0 serialization and if
something else is used, it has to be defined explicitely in the binding
specification.

In Part 2, the HTTP bindings does not define one single serialization
scheme, but allow different ones that can be identified by the mime type
used, but a conforming implementation MUST support application/soap+xml,
which is now restricted to XML 1.0 serialization.
In this case, the serialization scheme is not _explicitely_ stated but is
implicitly part of the media type definition, we may perhaps addsome text
in Part2 - 7.1.4 to state that the media type definition may have an
impact on the XML version used in the serialization.

I also noted that in section 5, part1, the definition of white space
characters always refer to XML 1.0, should this be changed to only "XML"
(or "the XML in which the infoset will be serialized in"?).
Thanks,

-- 
Yves Lafon - W3C
"Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras."

Received on Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:40:52 UTC