Re: [xml-dev] What does SOAP really add?

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Francis Norton <>
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Francis Norton <>
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2002-04-23T19:29:39Z
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Re: [xml-dev] What does SOAP really add?
Francis Norton wrote:

> That would make me happy - my bottom line is that I want to be able to 
> access Web Services from XSLT. If we had a HTTP GET that was flexible 
> enough to permit rich queries then this could be supported in WSDL - 
> it could even be specified there if there is a new version coming out 
> - and it would eventually be implemented straight out of the Web 
> Services box. 

Apologies for posting a suggestion when I'm not going to be around to 
read responses (the sun's going home here, and so should I) but one 
solution would be for WSDL to provide a feature similar to 
http:urlEncoded [1] for the HTTP GET binding - call the extension 
http:urlPayload, and specify that the resulting URL takes the form

    http://example.com/myWebService?payload=<myUrlEncodedXml>

Assume UTF-8 encoding - it's not very pretty but we could do worse....

Francis.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_http:urlEncoded