Resolution for Issue 440

Noah,

You raised Issue 440[1] regarding multiple references to a single MIME
part and unreferenced MIME parts in MTOM/XOP.

The XMLP WG has resolved this issue as follows:

XOP will allow unreferenced MIME parts
MTOM and HTTP binding will allow unreferenced MIME parts but such MIME
parts play no part in SOAP processing.

XOP will allow multiple refs per binary part
MTOM will allow multiple refs per binary part
HTTP binding will allow only one ref per binary part

I trust the resolves the issue to your satisfaction.

Regards

Martin Gudgin
For the W3C XMLP WG