a string, in SOAP, is not XML. so it is somewhat confusing what you
are saying here.

I guess there is not a best practice for that in particular, there are
many argued best practices for development of XML languages but SOAP
has some particular restrictions of what is allowed from XML in SOAP
thus there are things you cannot do no matter how much you would want
- most of this is not actual markup structure issues but rather
tertiary stuff like not using DTDs and so forth.

But at any rate you are trying to make XML that must be delivered as a
 SOAP doc/literal message (right?) thus it is more the best practices
for SOAP you are looking for.

I will enigmatically look up at heaven now, whistle, and say good luck
with that.


Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 5/31/07, Yannick Beynet <yannick.beynet@g...> wrote:
> Exactly ! I want to know If there is some "best practise" for
> developing an XML query language.
> Our problem is :
> We want to add a soap gateway to access an old legacy system. This
> system is very complex , many request, with many arguments. We don't
> want to add one soap method for any sort of request. We prefer adding
> just one method with one arguments : a string. This string should be
> our query (written in XML).
>
>
> 2007/5/31, Michael Kay <mike@s...>:
> > >
> > > Sorry, but you need to explain better; you want an XML query
> > > language, but not Xquery because it's an XML query language?
> > >
> >
> > I *suspect* that what he wants is a query language for some kind of
> > (unspecified) non-XML data but which is expressed using XML syntax. Perhaps.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> >
>
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