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On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:38, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> I believe that SOAP is using XML because of the lingering hype wave from
> XML, not because XML itself is particularly well-suited to the tasks that
> SOAP performs. I'd say SOAP used HTTP early on for similar reasons, and I
> hope that just as SOAP appears to be leaving HTTP behind as it becomes
> clearer that SOAP and HTTP have little to do with each other, that SOAP may
> yet leave XML behind.
One could even argue that SOAP is not using XML 1.0 but a XML like
markup language of its own: To be conform with SOAP you need to reject
XML documents using internal or external DTDs, ie to make a distinction
that neither the XML 1.0 recommendation nor the XML parsers I usually
use recognize!
Eric
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