[MOBY-dev] Conceptual doubt about datatypes representation in resquests/responses

[Paul Gordon]

Only the first one.  Just like in an OO language, where every instance 
of an object has a "place" for a member, even if the value is null (or 
empty tag, in the case of MOBY).
> Hi,
>
> I have a conceptual doubt and I've not been able to find an answer
> reviewing the documentation. Let's say that we have a datatype dat with
> three articleNames art1, art2, ar3 and a service whose return object is
> this datatype. In the response object, is mandatory that for the object
> dat to have the XML tags for all the article names even in any of them
> is empty?
>
> I mean this (imagine proper XML representation):
>
> <Simple>
> <dat>
> <art1>anything1</art1>
> <art2><anything</art2>
> <art3/>
> </dat>
> </Simple>
>
> ---
>
> <Simple>
> <dat>
> <art1>anything1</art1>
> <art2><anything</art2>
> </dat>
> </Simple>
>
> Both of these representations are equivalent and valid? or only the
> first one?
>
> Thanks,
>
>