On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:17:24 -0400, in soap you wrote: >Doc/lit doesn't define type mappings, but it definitively specifies the >structure of the message via XML Schema. Because the two applications know >in advance exactly what the message structure is, the details of how the >SOAP message processor maps the XML Schema to language types doesn't matter >to the other application. When using rpc/encoded, the two applications have >not agreed to a specific message structure. The SOAP message processor >generates the SOAP message structure based on it's specific interpretation >of SOAP Section 5, and there's no definitive schema of the message. The >interoperability issues arise when two different SOAP message procesors >interpret SOAP Section 5 slightly differently. > >Anne
In my experience I haven't found 2 toolkit that support the same subset of XSD yet (cause no one supports the whole of XSD), so doc/lit whilst in theory is more interoperable, in practice isn't. section 5 has its issues, but i think the doc/lit camp are making mountains out of molehills about them, whilst not mentioning the practical problems that doc/lit currently has. Cheers Simon www.pocketsoap.com
