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RE: SOAP's prohibiting use of XML internal subset

From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:55:01 -0600
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At 23:24 2002 11 25 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>Automatic resolution of external entities clearly is a security risk -- so
>there SHOULD be a way for XML based protocols to explicitly forbid this.

External entities are not central to the current issue
which is really about subsetting XML.

Note that the "standalone" declaration [1] allows one to
say that there are no references to external entities.

Note that [2] is all about internal entities.

paul

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-rmd
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/2002/10/charents-20021023
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