Re: [xml-dev] XPointer and XML Schema

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> >    3. Make the schemalocation hint manditory to provide, and manditory to
> > dereference for Schema-Loading, WRT XPointer.
> 
> This option really scares me!

Me too, but for security reasons.  Mandatory to deref means that I as the 
client can force a server to go open a file of my choosing. That's scary. 
Suppose I send the server schemaLocation="file:///etc/passwd" -- I could 
probably guess some account names from the helpful fault information that 
comes back.
	/r$