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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > From: Edd Dumbill [mailto:edd@u...] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:37 AM > > To: xml-dev@l... > > Subject: Microsoft's DISCO proposal and XML packaging > > > > > > I've just read http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/disco.asp > > "Draft: Discovery of Web Services (DISCO)" > > > > ... > > Thanks for the pointer. > > I am also a bit concerned about the fact that one supported scenario for > "discovery" seems to be: > > a) issue HTTP get > > b) if content type of response is "text/html" parse (!) HTML (!) document > and try to discover a HTML "link" element to the actual disco document. This > would require that anybody who wants to use this mechanism needs to have a > HTML parser (unless XHTML is required, but I haven't seen this as > assumption). HTML parsers are almost as readily available as XML parsers. Certainly there are ones for Perl, Python, C/C++ and Java. I think the reinvention of the wheel is more significant than this. -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
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