Re: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: What does 'have a mustUnderstand attribute' mean?

[Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>]

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Christopher Ferris
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Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com> wrote on 09/20/2005 03:06:59 
PM:

> Title: What does 'have a mustUnderstand attribute' mean?
> 
> Description:
> Lines 270-272 talk about wsrm:Sequence having a mustUnderstand attribute 

>   to ensure that the RMD understands it. What it really should say is: 
> have a mU attribute with a value of '1/true'.
> 
> Justification:
> Lines 270-272 in [1] say:
> "... The <wsrm:Sequence> element MUST have a mustUnderstand attribute 
> from the namespace corresponding to the version of SOAP to which the 
> <wsrm:Sequence> SOAP header block is bound."
> 
> Having a mU attribute does not ensure that the RMD will understand the 
> SOAP header, since the value of the attribute can be '0/false'.
> 
> Target: core
> 
> Type: editorial
> 
> Proposal:
> Change it to say: "... mustUnderstand attribute with a value of 1/true 
..."
> 
> Related issues: none
> 
> [1] 
> 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ws-rx/download.php/14548/wsrm-1.1-spec-wd-03.pdf