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Re: What does SOAP really add?

• To: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
• Subject: Re: What does SOAP really add?
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:59:07 -0400
• Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>, Didier PH Martin <martind@n...>, Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3CC58C3C.9080301@r...>; from francis@r... on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:30:52PM +0100
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:30:52PM +0100, Francis Norton wrote:
> True, sorry not to have addressed it.

No problem.

> I think that your idiom doesn't actually change *my* argument much - for 
> instance, if I want to fetch the results of a SOAP query into XSLT, we 
> still need support for POST in XSLT.

Well, that's the whole point of this discussion.  POST should not be
used to "fetch results", because we already have a method that does
that; GET.  If you have more than one method that means "fetch stuff",
then you've now got multiple independant information spaces, not a
single one.  WebDAV made this mistake with PROPFIND, as Dan Connolly
described here;

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Feb/0091.html

> Unless I an extension function to 
> POST the query, and return the URL to be fetched via document()... which 
> breaks XSLT's "no guaranteed order of evaluation" feature...
> 
> Hmmm. Doesn't really make my heart sing, but food for thought. Thanks.

Yup, for good reason.

Later.

MB
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Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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