Rich Salz wrote:
> You're not looking close enough. It provides
> Framework for multi-party (i.e., intermediary) interactions
> Forward-compatible evolution (mustUnderstand)
> A standard place for putting meta-data, upon which a wide variety
> of capabilities can be built; cf WS-xxx
Which directly points at one of the shortcomings of a lot of current
SOAP thinking: it's mired in the "Web services" area when the nice
little standard bricks it provides could be usefully reused accross the
spectrum of XML technologies -- having a standard envelope in which to
easily stuff more than the body is a good step towards packaging, and
generally applicable.
--
Robin Berjon
