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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 9:18 AM > To: Christopher R. Maden; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML > > > Yes that is the case. SOAP refusing to acknowledge it > is a W3C problem. They don't have the authority or perhaps > the will to make their own specifications interoperable > and well, so much for their standards. I'm not sure I follow. First, SOAP 1.2 is not a done deal; it's under development in public discussions on the xml-dist-app@w... mailing list. Anyone who feels strongly that SOAP 1.2 does the world a dis-service by discouraging DTDs and PIs in SOAP messages is urged to share their reasoning with the working group. The arguments for keeping out DTDs and PIs are all ABOUT interoperability; the 99.99% of of Web developers who are not SGML veterans or conversant with hypermedia theory have found these to be agents of all sorts of interop problems, and so the various SOAP formulators have thought best to keep them out of the *subset* of XML that SOAP recognizes. Counter-arguments -- those that reflect the requirement that SOAP is intended for communications between all sorts of devices from wristwatches to mainframes, anyway -- are welcome. Also, saying that SOAP problems are "a W3C problem" is like saying that IIS's vulnerability to worms is a Microsoft problem. Literally true, but not helpful in a world where this stuff is being hyped everywhere, given away, promoted as the salve for all pain, etc. We complain about the stuff in Windows or XML that is a "done deal" and all we can do is whine about it. Since SOAP is not yet a done deal, if you can't live with it, whine now, or we shall all truly whine later.
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