June 2004 - XML Nation

  • Footnote: bare is in the eye of the beholder

    As long as we're on the topic, I feel compelled to note that the distinction between doc/literal/wrapped and doc/literal/bare exists solely at the tool level. WSDL doesn't differentiate between them; services are just doc/literal. The ASMX code gen tools...
  • Doc/literal/bare and WSE2

    Justin observes that WSE 2 's new message-oriented API gives even greater access to a message and he's totally right. If you're using that API, you have tons of control. Of course, that's only one criteria for adopting a given tool...
  • Doc/Literal/Bare

    Craig spent last week at the house, working with me and other members of my team at a little coding off-site. One of the things we talked about was building doc/literal Web services that are bare. Craig wrote it up yesterday (what else would he do on...
  • XmlSerializer sans XSD

    This is for Chris ... You have some XML you want to process using XmlSerializer, but you don't have a schema to feed to xsd.exe in order generate CLR types. So what do you do? Write your serializable class by hand. It isn't very hard once you understand...
  • Getting started again

    I've been feeling for a while that I need to spend more time outside The Firm , so it's time to get started blogging again. Some of my old friends were nice enough to give me a new home here at Pluralsight , with a shiny new .Text install and a hefty...