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Re: Fwd: Re: What does SOAP really add?

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• Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: What does SOAP really add?
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:57:31 -0700
• References: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C104F0566C@r...> <00a701c1eacb$91fecc60$6401a8c0@didierhome> <004101c1eacf$f8aa1330$0bf13044@tbp> <017101c1ead8$fb458f80$6401a8c0@didierhome> <004601c1eb1c$ca257a70$0bf13044@tbp> <03f001c1eb1e$49773560$6401a8c0@didierhome> <3CC5EF76.DF65C814@p...> <040801c1eb29$c1e8a3c0$6401a8c0@didierhome> <3CC6086D.4E25F097@p...> <00f501c1eb99$707a6e40$6401a8c0@didierhome>

Didier PH Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Paul said:
> > My point in the article I referenced is that the web is a system with
> > its own data model. If you want to get the full benefit of the Web you
> > need to map things into that model in the same way that you only get the
> > benefit of SQL by mapping things into the relational model. The web is
> > flexible enough that you can hack your way around the model (much easier
> > than you can in, e.g. SQL) but then you will run into limitations like
> > the SQL encoding issue.
> 
> Didier replies:
> If we refer to the Uniform Resource Locators then each resource is
> identified with a "location". if obtaining data/content means that we are
> only allowed to obtain it with an HTTP GET (REST presumption) through a URI,
> for instance a locator (i.e. a URL), then if we use query templates to
> obtain content we will have to perform two operations:
>...

The point is that query templates is not really a first-class part of
the Web model. The Web model would encourage you to use XSLT templates
on the client side as your "query templates." We have to pop up a few
levels to the *real-world problem* you are trying to solve. Perhaps
query templates is not the way to solve it on the Web.

 Paul Prescod

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