[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Article: "The horror of XML"
10/30/2002 11:59:28 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> wrote: > 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. The resolution in SOAP 1.2 on this issue is a bit stronger than that: "A SOAP message MUST NOT contain a Document Type Declaration. On receipt of a SOAP message containing a Document Type Declaration, a SOAP receiver MUST generate a fault (see 4.4 SOAP Fault) with faultcode of "Client.DTD". A SOAP message SHOULD NOT contain processing instruction information items. A SOAP receiver MUST ignore processing instruction information items in SOAP messages it receives." Since SOAP 1.2 is defined on the infoset, it presupposes that a parser has done its work ... AFAIK, that doesn't imply an XML syntax parser, just one that produces XML Infosets. Of course, the "Horror of XML" makes facile and possibly unwarranted assumptions that the XML syntax is an bottleneck in web applications and web services. I'd recommend Sean McGrath's article at http://www.propylon.com/html/knowledge/XML_is_Too_Slow_20011110.html to anyone even THINKING about assuming this before profiling their code.
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