- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:36:59 -0400
- To: christopher ferris <chris.ferris@Sun.COM>
- Cc: jacek@idoox.com, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Jacek writes: >> I respectfully disagree, we should keep it >> at MUST NOT include DTD or PIs. +1. SHOULD NOTs are an invitation to interop problems. Yes, there are occasions where SHOULD NOT is an agreeable tradeoff -- I don't think this is one. If people start deploying processors that act on, for example, entities defined in an internal DTD subset carried with the message, my customers will expect my products to understand those messages. Yes, there can be situations in which it would be convenient to use some existing XML processor that just swallows DTD's and acts on them. I think the interop concerns outweigh that convenience. As a mentioned in my earlier note, I really think that SOAP in particular will be run in a performance regime that stretches what we're used to with XML. We should be very reluctant to tack on seemingly small features that collectively complicate the processing model. XML itself already has two strikes against it in competing with truly high performance messaging technologies of the sort we are hoping to displace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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