RE: Describing which blobs are to be optimized.

• From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
• Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:45:12 -0700
• To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <DF1BAFBC28DF694A823C9A8400E71EA203F1BF77@RED-MSG-30.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

My reading of the straw polls [1] relative to Issue 207 leads me to
suggest the following resolution:
Ask the XMLP WG to augment the paragraph in MTOM
[https://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-mtom/#aof-sending] as indicated {{thus}}:
"Note: the means of identifying element information items that contain
base64 encoded data in canonical lexical form are
implementation-dependent. Some implementations can identify such element
information items by construction (e.g., because a certain API may
create only canonical forms); others may check the characters prior to
sending{{, others may rely on information in the description such as the
presence and/or value of the xmlmime:expectedMediaType schema annotation
[reference to XMLMIME]}}.  Because of the need to exactly preserve the
characters in the transmitted Infoset, non-canonical representations
MUST NOT be optimized."
 [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2004Jun/0128.html
P.S.  for XMLP: It's a bit disconcerting to see a "MUST NOT" in a
"Note".

Received on Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:45:17 UTC