• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:02:48 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DA43B6D.3080100@d...>

10/9/2002 10:21:33 AM, Rich Salz <rsalz@d...> wrote:

>> Also, there *is* a fair amount of whimpering because SOAP isn't a good
>> transport for arbitrary XML.
>
>I think most SOAP folks believe this to be an XML issue:  you can't 
>embed an arbitrary XML document inside an XML document.  There are 
>issues like encoding, the embedded doc can't have its own DTD, potential 
>ID attribute conflicts (but see previous item), etc.  SOAP actually has 
>an answer to this -- message attachments.

Ah, yes, that's pretty much the clincher every time XML advocates start
"whimpering" about SOAP's limitations. I took a few moments to look for the
URL of a great message by one of the SOAP gurus making this very point
a few months back, but didn't find it.  I need to bookmark it for next time :-)

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