RE: ebXML Representtion of Metadata

[David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by "Nieman, Scott"
> Why should SOAP detail these types at all, versus just referencing
a DTD or Schema that the "type" must adhere too?   Its really that
simple.</Scott>
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Scott,

Major agreed.  If you open this Pandora's Box (which SOAP is doing!),
then you let in total chaos.

We all either agree to use a base standard and then strive to make
it work, enhance it et al - but charging off and creating a backdoor
where you can map anything else to whatever, is probably not
a cool idea at this point.

Example : - SOAP arrays - please, what's that?  XML already happily allows
you to morph an array into a valid XML structure, so this is just 
redundant confusion factor.

It's important to stay focused too.  The SOAP overlap in the Transport WG
arena
is obvious - its less clear in RegRep.

Thanks, DW.