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   RE: [xml-dev] Excellent IETF BCP on XML

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Need not and can be are different things.

Yep... know all about entities.  I also know 
that "identifier" is a resolvable URL and 
that documentation placed for convenience 
as a best practice leads one to resolve it. 
So the issue is for the protocol designer 
to explicitly say ... what?

len


From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@datapower.com]

> Hmm.  So namespacesCumURLs are a security problem?

No, a namespace URI is an identifier, and therefore need not be 
followed. The document (which is excellent) is talking about, you know, 
external ENTITY things.

I believe this security issue is one reason why SOAP disallows DTD's.






 

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