This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C16947.81580B70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Welcome to 1999, Paul. ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:08 AM > To: fork@xent.com > Subject: SOAP envelopes > > > Putting the payload in an XML envelope really doesn't make > much sense to > me. > > 1. The payload is not necessarily XML > > 2. If it is XML, it might be a complete document with a leading XML > declaration. That isn't legal so it would have to be treated as if it > were non-XML. > > 3. If the payload is XML, the situation seems worst of all. > Merging and > splitting the payload from the headers and envelope using XML > techniques > seems needlessly painful when you could just use MIME. > > I see the need for XML-structured headers because name/value pairs are > not all always good enough. I would propose that there should be a > specification for having headers as MIME attachments or something. > > Paul Prescod > > > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C16947.81580B70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">RE: SOAP envelopes Welcome to 1999, Paul. ;)
> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:08 AM
> To: fork@xent.com
> Subject: SOAP envelopes
>
>
> Putting the payload in an XML envelope really doesn't make
> much sense to
> me.
>
> 1. The payload is not necessarily XML
>
> 2. If it is XML, it might be a complete document with a leading XML
> declaration. That isn't legal so it would have to be treated as if it
> were non-XML.
>
> 3. If the payload is XML, the situation seems worst of all.
> Merging and
> splitting the payload from the headers and envelope using XML
> techniques
> seems needlessly painful when you could just use MIME.
>
> I see the need for XML-structured headers because name/value pairs are
> not all always good enough. I would propose that there should be a
> specification for having headers as MIME attachments or something.
>
> Paul Prescod
>
>
> http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
>