Re: Definitive version of the VOTable schema for web services

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 -

• 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.