[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-l] To access moby service using Java

[Mark Wilkinson]

If more people were as pedantic as you we would have more successful
first-tries at MOBY service building ;-)

M

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:56, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Pedantic Paul on the prowl, sorry :-)
> 
> It's a common error, but technically "element" in XML refers the 
> <start-tag>...</endtag> or <inline-tag/> parts of the document.  Things 
> like processing instructions, comments, are "tags" or "nodes".  It's a 
> CDATA Section.  Pedantic people read further.
> 
> An XML document has one or more elements, so a document that's just a 
> comment is not an XML document.  In fact, the XML prolog <?xml...?> tag 
> and any comments/whitespace/processing instructions after or before the 
> root element close tag are not considered part of the XML document.  
> Most DOM implementations will not let you access anything from the 
> prolog except the document type declaration(<!DOCTYPE>), so be careful!
> 
> >It should be contained in a CDATA element.
> >
> >Thanks Paul!
> >
> >M
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Paul Gordon <gordonp at cbr.nrc.ca>
> >Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:46:47 
> >To:moby-l at biomoby.org
> >Subject: Re: [MOBY-l] To access moby service using Java
> >
> >We should be careful.  The example below includes a complete xml 
> >document (albeit with no xml namespace for the data).  What would 
> >normally be an XML declaration on the first line of a file turns out to 
> >be an XML processing instruction (<?xml...) in the middle.  This 
> >document will not be well-formed, because the BNF definition of a 
> >well-formed XML document's processing instructions in the XML 1.0 
> >standard excludes "xml" as a PI target:
> >
> >
> >	|PI| 	   ::=    	|'<?' PITarget 
> ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-PITarget> (S 
> ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-S> (Char 
> ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-Char>* - (Char 
> ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-Char>* '?>' Char 
> ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-Char>*)))? '?>'|
> >
> >	|PITarget| 	   ::=    	|Name 
> ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-Name> - (('X' | 'x') 
> >('M' | 'm') ('L' | 'l'))|
> >
> >
> >So I guess my point is that there are basically two options:
> >
> >1. Wrap the moby:text-xml contents in a CDATA section so no payload 
> >syntax will mess up the well-formed nature of the moby document
> >2. Make sure we don't send xml declarations and other potentially 
> >dangerous data down the pipe.
> >
> >The advantage to the 1st method is a guaranteed clean MOBY document 
> >every time.  But this also requires everyone to agree that when they see 
> >a moby:text-xml element, they will consider that the contents needs to 
> >be unescaped (i.e. the structure of the payload is not accessible from 
> >the MOBY document DOM, it will have to be parsed separately).  The 
> >second option allows the payload data and its logical partitions to be 
> >accessible from the MOBY DOM, but if the contents are not valid, the 
> >MOBY message as a whole is invalid.
> >
> >The second option is convenient, but I'm leaning towards a clean 
> >separation of the whole thing into three layers:  SOAP network 
> >transport, MOBY transaction envelope, application XML contents.
> >
> >My CDN$0.02.  Anyone agree, disagree, not care?
> >
> >Ken Steube wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>><moby:MOBY xmlns:moby="http://www.biomoby.org/moby">
> >>>   <moby:Response moby:authority="http://mips.gsf.de">
> >>>       <moby:queryResponse queryID="">
> >>>           <Simple>
> >>>               <moby:text-xml namespace="Global_Keyword" id="431260"
> >>>articleName="odata1">
> >>><?xml version="1.0 encoding="UTF-8"?><element
> >>>id="10"><desc>431260</desc></element>
> >>>               </moby:text-xml>
> >>>           </Simple>
> >>>       </moby:queryResponse>
> >>>   </moby:Response>
> >>></moby:MOBY>
> >>>
> >>>If you have worked with "text-xml" object(moby specific) types , kindly
> >>>correct me.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Viji
> >>>
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