- From: Jack, Adam <AJack@neonsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:02:54 -0600
- To: Kurt Cagle <cagle@olywa.net>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
XML is adequate for containing XML, although namespaces can get to be something of a pain. XML is even pretty good at containing non-XML information, such as MIME encodings, which is the whole reason behind the CDATA section in the first place (though I personally would like to see a mechanism within XML that would allow you to specify the enclosing delimiters of a CDATA section). I don't want to start a food fight either, but I disagree with this statement. Putting a generic XML payload inside XML can't work with validation, CDATA can't nest CDATA, and no tag/delimited mechanism is viable for generic binary data, however one specifies the enclosing delimiter. For now I am just going to base64 encode my SOAP payload, but I'd like not have to. It isn't as if XML were already compact... ;-) SOAP is, for all that it is pushed as a messaging mechanism, is essentially a way of performing RPCs, Agreed, so back to "ought SOAP be used for simple XML document passing?" regards, Adam
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