Re: Problems about the Spectrum Data Model from the view of a Web Service programmer

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:04:31 +0100

Guy Rixon wrote:
> I.e. any mix of text, attribute and element content is allowed.
> Which SOAP
> standard are you looking at?

My presumption was that this was a toolset issue and we were ignoring that sort of thing. After all the following is also valid XML,

<TagOne>

     <TagTwo>35</TagTwo>
     36

</TagOne>

let alone,

<TagOne attribOne="35" >

     36
</TagOne>

which seems to be the problem case? SOAP is just one of the transport mechanisms we're using, and will probably be dead long before XML, and both will probably be dead before FITS. I don't think we should bend our XML standards around what does and doesn't work (easily) with SOAP.

Al. Received on 2006-09-15Z12:05:04