>  From ws-dev-admin@[...].com  Tue Nov 20 19:35:59 2001
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>  Let's say you want to look something up in your WSDL data structure. It
>  could be a port, an element, a type, etc.

>  My original idea is that you would do something like
>  $WSDL->FindPort(...)

>  Gisle had the idea that you could do $WSDL->Find("port", ...)

>  The benefits of my way is that it is more traditional and has better
>  compatibility with statically typed languages like Java.

>  The benefits of Gisle's is that in theory you could increase the list of
>  component types you could look up without changing the API. XML Schema
>  does have a notion of component that is not unlike Gisle's.

>  I think I still prefer my way because it doesn't introduce a new concept
>  of "component" and "component type" with an enumeration of component
>  types. I can't really imagine how you would extend the list of component
>  types and I don't know how you could use new component types in code
>  without knowing their semantics in advance.
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I did the first (and only, so far) cut of WSDL4TCL
in Gisle's style, 'cause that's far more idiomatic
to my way of speaking Tcl.

It'd be quite a pain with Java and such, though, I
agree.
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