Re: PostgreSQL and SOAP, suggestions?

Hannu Krosing wrote:

>cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com kirjutas N, 03.04.2003 kell 02:01:
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>>>I think you are interpreting the spec a bit too restrictively. The
>>>syntax is fairly rigid, but the spec has a great degree of flexibility.
>>>I agree that, syntactically, it must work through a parser, but there is
>>>lots of room to be flexible.
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>>This is /exactly/ the standard problem with SOAP.
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>>There is enough "flexibility" that there are differing approaches
>>associated, generally speaking, with "IBM versus Microsoft" whereby it's
>>easy to generate SOAP requests that work fine with one that break with
>>the other.
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>Do you know of some:
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>a) standard conformance tests
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Off the top of my head, no, but I bet it is a goole away. If you know
any good links, I'd love to know. I have been working off the W3C spec.

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>b) recommended best practices for being compatible with all mainstream
>implementations (I'd guess a good approach would be to generate very
>strictly conformant code but accept all that you can, even if against
>pedantic reading of the spec)
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I have been planning to "test" the whole thing with a few .NET
applications. I am currently using expat to parse the output to ensure
that it all works correcty.

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