On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Matthew J. Dovey wrote:
> Could people try the schemas now up at
> http://samantha.oucs.ox.ac.uk:8080/srw1-1/ and let me know if there are
> any problems? These should fix the issues raised with the Unix .NET
> toolkit.

> Problem handling imports
> Problem handling document/literal style
> Failure to do the above means the toolkit isn't WS-I compliant!

Yes, but that's an awful lot of toolkits.

IMHO, as I've expressed in the past, it would be nice to have an official
version of the WSDL (eg WS-I style) and 'contributed' WSDL files which can
be used to generate exactly the same messages but work in less capable
environments.

The WSDL support outside of the mainstream isn't very good for the
simple fact that WSDL parsing is a lot of work. And the mainstream is
pretty narrow... the best SOAP tks for Perl and Python can't handle the
WS-I style for SRW.

Who cares how the implementation generates the messages, so long as they
interoperate!

Rob

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