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 Good point, but I think we use XML for reasons other than the Infoset. A syntax-based spec is why we can say "XML Doesn't Care" and mean it. Markup is not about messaging per se. It is about having a descriptive format that can reliably be used to move information without loss. The trick is that when the Dumpster gets full, you can reach in and sort the information out of the garbage. Does the Infoset warranty that as well as XML 1.0? Granted, it can be done with other syntaxes as well, and most of us know, it gets down to choosing one and sticking with it. Someone asked the other day how such an ugly thing as SGML could have beaten its competitors. A GS-zed I knew in DoD told me, when the time came to choose, it was the only workable solution among a lot of other ugly solutions. It seemed that the nature of the problem bred uglyness and all that mattered was functionality. len -----Original Message----- From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] Don't be so sure. SOAP doesn't care about angle brackets; 1.2 is based on the InfoSet. Just as the WS-* vision abstracts away HTTP and URIs so that they can be replaced with something new and better, it abstracts away XML syntax, and could replace it with a binary format, C# object declaration syntax, or anything else that can be parsed into an InfoSet. XML as we know it may find itself in the Dumpster along with HTTP and URIs before long. 
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