- From: David Fallside <fallside@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:40:19 -0700
- To: xmlp-comments@w3.org, duerst@w3.org
The XML Protocol (XMLP) WG has decided to close issue 266 [1], which you originated, with the following resolution. The XMLP WG has decided to close this issue without any change to the SOAP Data Model and without any change to the SOAP Encoding. The XMLP WG recognizes the general importance of enabling I18N, however SOAP's model and serialization is designed for interfacing with programming languages many of which we believe would be incapable of dealing with the resulting marked up text. Indeed, there has been early experience (e.g. on "soapbuilders") binding the SOAP Encoding to a large number of widely deployed systems (e.g. Java, .Net, etc.) We have reason to believe that most, perhaps all of these would be incapable of effeciently representing (e.g. in their Unicode string types) the sort of marked up text that is conveyed by mixed content. We realize that this decision is at best a practical compromise from the point of view of i18n. We believe, however, that the sensible order of attack on this problem is to first encourage the development of programming systems that can indeed efficiently manipulate such richly structured text. At that point, it would indeed be sensible to consider "raising the bar" and providing at least an option for mixed content in the SOAP encoding. In the meantime, we do not believe that we can adopt an approach that would substantially break most or all of our existing users' implementations. The XMLP WG notes that the SOAP Data Model and Encoding are optional, and the SOAP framework allows someone to create their own model with a serialisation that provides mixed content. We hope that this resolution satisfies your concern. If not, please contact the WG asap. [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-lc-issues#x266 ............................................ David C. Fallside, IBM Ext Ph: 530.477.7169 Int Ph: 544.9665 fallside@us.ibm.com
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