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

[Pina Hirano <pina@infoteria.co.jp>]

Keisuke,

I understand.  But, is there any implementation problem in adding UTF-16 as
mandated?  I presume adding UTF-16 is right thing to do for consistency, if
there is no real world impact.

Thanks,
Pina Hirano - Infoteria Corporation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keisuke Kibakura [mailto:kibakura@jp.fujitsu.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:56 PM
> To: uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] Basic Profile Version 1.0 - Working Group Draft
>
>
> Dan,
>
> UDDI implementation uses an XML processor, which must conform to
> the XML specification, but UDDI itself is not an XML processor.
>
> I don't think the current UDDI specification is illegal, though
> it uses only UTF-8.
>
> --
> Keisuke Kibakura
>
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:44:32 +0400,
> >>>>> Daniel Feygin <feygin@unitspace.com> wrote :
>
> > 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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