RE: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Thanks Dare.  Yet a third expert opinion.

If the SOAP specification is built on the infoset, 
is a syntax-subset necessary?

len


From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]

Future versions of XML that don't make the infoset a first class
consideration are refusing to learn from history. For many people who
use XML, the syntax is incidental but the data model is not. 

Secondly, even though I'm not an XML Web Services geek, I do know that
SOAP 1.2 is built on the Infoset not the XML 1.0 syntax and thus
question why anyone would think revisions to the XML 1.0 syntax spec
would affect SOAP if they don't manifest themselves in the XML Infoset. 

> Ok.  That's two for syntax-only but with a different set of 
> features.  I don't know if expanding into the Schema debates 
> is necessary although it is clear that we have been 
> conflating these requirements by discussing expansion of the 
> xml: vocabulary for things like ids.
> 
> Will the SOAP folks be happy with a 'syntax-only' subset?
> 
> len