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How does XDI differ from SOAP?

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How does XDI differ from SOAP?

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XDI might be called “SOAP for data sharing”. In other words, the same way SOAP provides a standard XML envelope for cross-domain messaging, XDI provides a standard XML envelope for cross-domain data interchange. Of course an XDI envelope can go inside a SOAP envelope, which is exactly what happens in the XDI/SOAP binding. With XDI/SOAP, XDI functions as a standard Web service, and is interoperable with all other Web services standards and infrastructure. • Is XDI only for enveloping other data? No. Like XML digital signatures, XDI documents can also be contained within conventional XML documents (enveloped), or they can be used to describe resources from which they are completely independent (detached). Of course these uses of the XDI meta-schema do not involve XDI service, which operates only on XRI-addressable resources, just as HTTP operates only on URI-addressable resources. • What are XDI link contracts? If XML is self-describing data, then XDI is self-describing data sharing cont

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