2004/09/18

Why namespaces don’t replace media types

Mark Uncategorized 
<html xsl:version="1.0"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict">
  <head>
    <title>Expense Report Summary</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Total Amount: <xsl:value-of select="expense-report/total"/></p>
  </body>
</html>

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Update; ok, for the two of you that missed my point, that document is both an XHTML document and an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet. All the root namespace tells you is, well, the root namespace. The actual type is orthogonal to this, and in fact, orthogonal to anything in the document itself. Unless we want to prevent this form of compound document from being used, it is critical that media types continue be the key from which applications are dispatched.

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Just CRUD

Mark Uncategorized

As previously suspected, it seems WS-Transfer is missing POST because of an attempt to limit it to CRUD semantics. From the latest MS whitepaper;

A factory is a Web service that can create a resource from its XML representation. WS-Transfer introduces operations that create, update, retrieve and delete resources.
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