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Re: Article: "The horror of XML"


Re:  Article: "The horror of XML"

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> You never know at compile time what documents you or may not
> encounter. Just because the spec says a SOAP request can't contain a
> processing instruction or a document type declaration doesn't mean
> one won't.

But if one does, then it's not a legal SOAP request, and
a SOAP processor should feel free to treat it the same as
any other illegal input.  It can bail out as soon as it
sees '<' followed by anything other than a name start character.

Now a conformant XML processor can't do that, of course,
but a SOAP processor doesn't need to include a conformant
XML parser.  A parser for the SOAP subset will do just fine.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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