- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:16:37 -0500
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Sun's recently posted an alpha of J2ME Web Services <http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr172/index.html> This spec defines a subset of JAXP, SAX, and XML which is only suitable for processing SOAP messages. It is not suitable for generic XML processing. Among other sins, it permits parsers to throw a SAXParseException when encountering a document type declaration, and to not support non-predefined entity references. Note that although the spec is focused on web services, it does define an official XML API for J2ME that will be used for parsing documents other than SOAP messages. In other words, SOAP's decision to forbid the internal DTD subset is now being propagated into other domains. Fortunately the JSR-172 subset still allows processing instructions. I did not recognize any of the names in the expert group. It is not clear if there is any real XML expert in the group who actually understands XML at a deep level. However, if passed unfixed this spec and resulting implementations will be seen as normative by numerous other programmers who don't read W3C recommendations or hang out on xml-dev. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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