RE: Application Headers

["Saha, Saikat" <saikat.saha@commerceone.com>]

David,

If the very purpose of ApplicationHeader is to pass information from MSH
to the Application layer, I completely agree with you.

Regards,
Saikat

-----Original Message-----
From: Burdett, David 
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:47 PM
To: ebXML Transport (E-mail)
Subject: Application Headers


Lines 841-845 say ...

>>>An ApplicationHeaders element that has a mustUnderstand set to a value of
true means that a receiving MSH MUST be capable of understanding the meaning
of the namespace-qualified element content. If the content is not
understood, the receiving MSH MUST respond with a message that includes an
errorCode of NotSupported in an Error element as defined in section 8.8.<<<

I don't think that the MSH must understand the elements. It only needs to
recognize the namespace qualified elements and know that it has an
application that can handle them.

Thoughts?

David

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