Yes, this is the real world and businesses that don't follow the spec are
creating a serious interoperability exposure for themselves. Nonetheless,
if a message violates the intent of the creaters of the CPA (or equivalent)
one or the other has made a serious error and processing of the message
should not continue.
Regards,
Marty
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David Fischer <david@drummondgroup.com> on 11/08/2001 10:19:07 PM
To: Dan Weinreb <dlw@exceloncorp.com>, arvola@tibco.com
cc: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL
I find myself outnumbered so I will acquiesce -- with one final comment.
Businesses in the real world don't like strict rules. I think this will
fail,
or more likely implementors will not follow the spec.
- David