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I don't disagree. But if you have to send the intent, pick one. Our lives are simpler and longer if we can agree on basic gestures when downing a mammoth or deciding which of us gets to talk to the red-haired girl first. len -----Original Message----- From: Michael Brennan [mailto:Michael_Brennan@A...] > From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] <snip/> > We are about to walk straight back into the Doctype over PI > over attvalue in the root discussion. Well, since I am firmly in the camp of insisting there is no inherent doctype in a document, I should emphasize that the "intent" of a message is not something inherent in the syntax of a message viewed in isolation. However, a document has no notion of a corresponding response, either, yet web services need such a correlation. Web services need abstractions that go beyond the syntax of a document viewed in isolation, and when considered in this context, a message needs a way to convey an intent that is not simply up to the interpretation of any consumer. I don't think you can completely decouple the intent of a message at the web service layer from syntactic constructs used to convey that intent. One can certainly debate, though, over the mechanisms used to convey that intent.
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