Web service standards question

[Guy Rixon]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Alasdair Allan wrote:

>
> > > Guy? Didn't the GWS-WG recommend we stuck to wrapped document last
> > > year at Strasbourg? I can't remember exactly how the discussion
> > > went...
> >
> > We agree that RPC/encoded had too many problems at that point in time
> > and that we didn't want to use it. We provisionally agreed that we
> > preferred document/literal. Wil suggested that we need document/literal
> > on the wire but with an RPC API.
>
> Yes, it's all vaguely coming back. Will were you suggesting that we send
> our XML documents as an xsd:string? Or were you suggesting something more
> complicated?

C.f. the Globus-core technique of declaring a message part as an Any in WSDL
and making an API for that operation/message-pair that takes a DOM instance.

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