Re: [ubl-dev] How to 'glue' two instances having different schemas?

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Stephen:

XOP is a much lower level protocol for more efficient transmission of 
large binary packages.  It is probably not suitable for the purposes you 
stated of gluing together multiple schemas.  That should probably happen 
at the payload level. 

Duane

Stephen Green wrote:

>Mmm. XOP all seems to hinge around the reliability
>of a URI which references something in a MIME
>message. How persistent is that URI? It seems
>to require that the actual MIME message for the
>payload be archived and be available to downstream
>processes. How realistic is that in electronic trade?
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>Personally I think there is likely to be less software
>ability to refer back to the MIME message for its
>MIME Content-IDs and it seems unreasonable to
>expect this in systems. It would be like expecting
>clerks of the paper process to keep all the envelopes,
>compliment slips, etc for invoices and catalogue
>which envelope went with which document. This
>is especially unreasonable if there are all sorts of
>standards operating for the envelopes and inclusions
>and again in electronic terms there are likely to be
>a few using XOP, others relying on use of a
>StandardBusinessDocument, some using ebMS,
>some using the WS-stack but many using just XML
>files attached to secure emails. It would have to
>be an expensive bit of software to cater for all this if
>it was important to keep MIME information, as
>compared to software just having to keep the lowest
>common denominator - namely the payload XML.
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>All the best
>
>Steve
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Anders W. Tell" <opensource@toolsmiths.se>
>To: "Stephen Green" <stephen_green@seventhproject.co.uk>
>Cc: <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 5:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] How to 'glue' two instances having different schemas?
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>>Stephen Green wrote:
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>>>It reminds me that one way to keep the document together with
>>>other documents in a way that a reference can be made from one to the
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>>>with SOAP and then XPath, as follows:
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>>I just got pointed to the FAQ with W3C considerations re XInclude and
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>XPath,
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>><http://www.w3.org/TR/xopinc-FAQ/>
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>>rgrds
>>/anders
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