RE: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

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

The SOAP processing model (i.e., what you do with a message, what its
semantics are, etc) is described in terms of the XML Infoset.
The only defined binding of a SOAP message is XML over HTTP.   There are
other sample bindings, but they all do XML over other transports.

So yes, even the SOAP WG recognizes that XML is necessary for interop.
        /r$