xml-dev - RE: Microsoft's DISCO proposal and XML packaging

[Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Julian Reschke wrote:

> > From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:matt@sergeant.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:22 PM
> > To: Julian Reschke
> > Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: RE: Microsoft's DISCO proposal and XML packaging
> 
> > > I don't agree. Building a framework around XML based web
> > services and then
> > > to require that for service discovery you need a full-blown HTML parser
> > > doesn't make sense. Think about PDAs, embedded devices etc.
> >
> > If an embedded device cares about a HTML link, then its going to have an
> > HTML parser. If it doesn't care about HTML, then its not going to be
> > requesting these resources, its going to be requesting WAP or other
> > lightweight XML resources.
> >
> > However see my other post on this draft.
> 
> I understand the draft that it can happen that the "disco" service
> description document is hidden behind an HTML entity body -- so even if a
> device doesn't know anything about HTML (because it is only interested in
> XML based web services), it would be required to parse the text/html body in
> order to find the XML-parseable service description. This doesn't seem to
> make sense...
> 
> Am I missing something?

I think so... This is about the discovery of services for a particular
resource. In this case a HTML resource.

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