Definitive version of the VOTable schema for web services

[Matthew Graham]

Hi Paul,

You just sent the VOTable schema - can you resend with the WSDL?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Paul Harrison wrote:

>
> On 2008-07 -30, at 01:18, Matthew Graham wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The VOTable schema that exists on the IVOA web site cannot just be  
>> imported into a WSDL document. There are several web services, e.g.  
>> Open SkyQuery, SkyNode, WESIX, which have produced their own  
>> version of the schema to work with WSDL - essentially all the  
>> complexTypes need to be named and globally defined instead of being  
>> anonymous under the elements. I was wondering whether the VOTable  
>> group could produce a sanctioned version of the VOTable 1.1 schema  
>> that will work with WSDL?
>>
>> 	Cheers,
>>
>> 	Matthew
>
> Hi,
>
> Whilst agreeing with other comments that it is probably not a good  
> idea to have an explicitly VOTable typed object in the soap message - 
> what is wrong with just doing something like the attached WSDL - 
> <VOTable.xsd> - reusing via an element ref- even axis 1.4 manages to  
> generate code from this - I believe that it is also WS-I compliant  
> (so hopefully it works for most other systems too)- I think that  
> most code generators will generate appropriate code from either  
> global element definitions or global complex type definitions. I do  
> agree however, that all those global element definitions in the  
> VOTable schema are not nice stylistically mainly because they imply  
> that a single TD is a valid VOTable document, and reuse of VOTable  
> structures would be easier if they were complex types as then a new  
> type could be derived.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Paul.
>