----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Neward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:55 PM Subject: RE: .NET Interop problem with jagged arrays
> > > For best results with respect to interoperability, write your WSDL > first. > > > > yes but this is an awful thing to do. there is only one thing worse, and > > that is trying to debug an XSD file you have written yourself. > > > It's actually not that bad if you've got a decent tool to support you--my > current favorite (which is not to say that it's a wonderful tool, but it's > not some nice support for authoring a WSDL doc) is Kamiak Omniopera WS. I' m using xml spy today, but it is clunky and we dont think its schema validation is rigorous enough. > > Why did we get into this state of affairs? Was IDL *so* bad? > > > Because we just *had* to define these things in XML themselves. <shrug/> If > you want to go back and suggest IDL again, I'm sure the W3C will happily > receive your submission.... ;-) If I suggest we use RDF instead of XML they will listen > One thought which *does* perhaps offer some attraction is an IDL->WSDL tool, > though.... mmm.