> My question, I guess, is whether or not any SOAP processors one might
> use to construct a SAML request are likely to embed xmlns:xsd or
> xmlns:xsi anywhere, possibly referencing 1999 (since that's SOAP 1.1's
> timeframe)?
Most of the SOAP implementations I know declare the schema and
schema-instance namespaces.
While SOAP1.1 officially points to an obsolete draft of the XMLSchema
standard, the consensus among the soap interoperability folks (the
soapbuilders mailing list at yahoogroups), is to use SOAP 1.1 with the
official Schema standard. Many will accept any of three XML Schema
URI's, and try to generate a reply in the same namespace, but that is
considered an interim measure.
I think you'll see no pushback from the SOAP developers community if you
specify SOAP 1.1 with the XML Schema NS.
/r$
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