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Michael Kay wrote: > > If you send a data message, without any indication of why you are sending > it, then there must be something extraneous to the message itself that > indicates the purpose of the message and what you expect to happen to it. > For example, this may be implied by the URL or other destination that you > send the message to. > > I prefer to have the action included as part of the message rather than > being implied by context, so I have used techniques like including an > attribute such as action="add|update|delete|find" on the outermost element. > > With a data-only message, how would you send a delete request? You send a delete request to the URI that represents the thing you want not to exist anymore. HTTP has a method for this but of course you could use a SOAP method call or whatever. Paul Prescod
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