ok, we were on the same page from the beginning so.
sorry for unprecise wording.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Assaf Arkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Alexis Midon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The initial question was: should the REST connector use element (of a
> simple
> > type) or simple type for header parts in the wsdl?
> >
> > <part name="headerA" type="xs:string"/>
> > or
> > <xs:element type="xs:string" name="foo" />
> > ...
> > <part name="headerA" element="foo"/>
> >
> > So in the message, I could get:
> > <message>
> >   <headerA>a-string</headerA>
> > or
> >   <headerA><foo>a-string</foo></headerA>
> > </message>
> >
> > My goal was to support both. If the part element has a child element
> > (<foo>), get its text content, else get the text content of the part
> > element. If none thow an exception.
> > (not a really deep recursion)
> >
> > Using elements make the life easier on the designer side -- every part
> will
> > have an element (but it does not mean that the user must provide one) --
> and
> > allows to use default values. But for hand-written wsdls, having an
> element
> > for every simple type is quite cumbersome.
> >
> > So the idea was to support both. Which will you go for?
>
> Both!
>
> I was specifically commenting on:
>
> "take the content of the first encountered text node."
>
> That would fail in two case.  First, the simple type element could
> have multiple text nodes (something to do with entity expansion), so
> you're only reading half the value.  Second, it's actually a complex
> type and instead of detecting and failing, you're silently swallowing
> the error.
>
> <foo>
>  <bar>bad!</bar>
> </foo>
>
> You end up reading the first encountered text node, which is the
> whitespace leading up to the bar element, instead of detecting and
> failing because foo is not a simple type.
>
> Assaf
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Assaf Arkin (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>    [
> >>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-344?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12615710#action_12615710
> ]
> >>
> >> Assaf Arkin commented on ODE-344:
> >> ---------------------------------
> >>
> >> Mixed content is the root of all unexplained bugs.
> >>
> >> If the element is simple type, we can say that mapping that element is
> the
> >> same as mapping its content (i.e. all its text nodes).  If the element
> is
> >> complex type, something is wrong, throw a selection fault.  If someone
> >> really meant to discard the element contents except for the text nodes,
> they
> >> can say so explicitly using XPath.
> >>
> >> > Support element for headers and query strings
> >> > ---------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >                 Key: ODE-344
> >> >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-344
> >> >             Project: ODE
> >> >          Issue Type: Improvement
> >> >          Components: Axis2 Integration
> >> >            Reporter: Alexis Midon
> >> >
> >> > So far, parts bound to HTTP headers or encoding withe
> >> url-encoded/x-www-form-urlencoded must be simple types.
> >> > This improvement aims at support elements too.
> >> > So for a given part A, if A as a text-node, take the content of that
> node
> >> ;
> >> > else check if a child element exists and take the text content of that
> >> element.
> >> > Which can be summed up in: take the content of the first encountered
> text
> >> node.
> >>
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