Re: [uddi-spec] XPointer change in WSDL BP

[John Colgrave <colgrave@hursley.ibm.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ugo Corda" <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
To: "'John Colgrave'" <colgrave@hursley.ibm.com>; "uddi-spec"
<uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] XPointer change in WSDL BP


> John,
>
> I am not sure what you mean by "inherit" (I am not aware of any inheriting
> mechanism in MIME). If you mean that text/xml would be the most reasonable
> type if no other registration existed, I disagree. Text/xml should be
> reserved for XML documents readable by a "casual user", while
> application/xml should be applied to documents intended for machine
> processing (which I think is the case for WSDL). That also explains why we
> have application/soap+xml and not text/soap+xml.

Ugo,

I guess we could discuss whether WSDL is readable by a "casual user" but if
all we would be talking about is whether, in the absence of a specific
registration, we should assume text/xml or application/xml then it makes no
difference to the BP as XPointer is applicable to both.

John