RE: [uddi-spec] Basic Profile Version 1.0 - Working Group Draft

[Daniel Feygin <feygin@unitspace.com>]

Indeed, according to the effective editions of XML 1.0
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) and of XML 1.1
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/) recommendations (see section 2.2):
  All XML processors must accept the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Feygin [mailto:feygin@unitspace.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:45 AM
> To: 'uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Cc: 'Von Riegen, Claus'
> Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] Basic Profile Version 1.0 - Working 
> Group Draft
> 
> 
> Working group draft states: 
>     All XML Processors must support UTF-8 and UTF-16, per the 
> XML 1.0 specification.
> 
> According to this statement, UTF-16 support is mandated by 
> XML 1.0.  If that is correct, then we cannot claim that UDDI 
> Web Service is a true XML Web Service - it is a service 
> supporting only a subset of XML expressed in UTF-8.
> 
> This certainly implies that some errata is required to 
> correct the problem - the question is whether we amend the 
> specifications to clearly indicate that UDDI is not in 
> compliance with XML 1.0 (and therefore with WS-I Basic 
> Profile) or whether we become XML-compliant with respect to 
> the UTF-16 issue.
> 
> Daniel Feygin
> UnitSpace
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Von Riegen, Claus [mailto:claus.von.riegen@sap.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 7:11 PM
> > To: 'uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org'
> > Subject: [uddi-spec] Basic Profile Version 1.0 - Working Group Draft
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the link to the WS-I Basic Profile that was recently
> > made public: 
> > http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/Basic/2002-10/BasicProfile-1.0-WGD.htm.
> > As for the character encoding issue we already discusses, the 
> > requirement to support both UTF-8 and UTF-16 is listed as 
> > "R1012" in section 4.1. Section 3.2 defines conformance 
> > (against the profile) of Web services in general.
> > 
> > Claus
> > 
> > 
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