[MOBY-l] questions about doc/literal support in Moby

[Jason Stewart]

Hey all,

I've been chatting with martin trying to get my head around what is
needed for doc/literal support in MOBY. Not quite there yet, but
slowly beginning to understand.

I found this piece of information while reading an article:

"This example also highlights one area where rpc/encoded is actually
more capable than document/literal today. The SOAP encoding rules
facilitate the representation of object graphs in XML such as the
cyclical reference shown in Figure 4. Since there is no way to
represent this with just XML Schema, the document/literal example will
throw an exception if you try to return something that cannot be
represented as a natural tree structure. This issue will probably be
solved by defining a standard way to represent object graphs in
conjunction with XML Schema."

from:

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164152.aspx

How do people feel about that? Isn't that a pretty big limitation? I
would think that a lot of biological data has cyclical relations, but
maybe that's incorrect.

Just checking. Cheers, jas.