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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Julian Reschke wrote: > > From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:matt@s...] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:22 PM > > To: Julian Reschke > > Cc: xml-dev@l... > > Subject: RE: Microsoft's DISCO proposal and XML packaging > > > > I don't agree. Building a framework around XML based web > > services and then > > > to require that for service discovery you need a full-blown HTML parser > > > doesn't make sense. Think about PDAs, embedded devices etc. > > > > If an embedded device cares about a HTML link, then its going to have an > > HTML parser. If it doesn't care about HTML, then its not going to be > > requesting these resources, its going to be requesting WAP or other > > lightweight XML resources. > > > > However see my other post on this draft. > > I understand the draft that it can happen that the "disco" service > description document is hidden behind an HTML entity body -- so even if a > device doesn't know anything about HTML (because it is only interested in > XML based web services), it would be required to parse the text/html body in > order to find the XML-parseable service description. This doesn't seem to > make sense... > > Am I missing something? I think so... This is about the discovery of services for a particular resource. In this case a HTML resource. -- <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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