- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:08:54 -0600
- To: www-tag@w3.org
At 16:34 2003 01 16 -0500, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >End of story. PIs are never legal in SOAP messages. > As it happens, the semantics of a PI in a >SOAP body would be very questionable. Does it apply only to the body, or >to the SOAP message as a whole? PI's aren't well scoped to the XML >tree...they just sort of float in the document. SOAP processing is tied >very deeply to the tree structure of XML. Accordingly, it is somewhat >difficult to provide stable semantics for PIs floating around in SOAP >messages. That was among the reasons that I was one of those who endorsed >the current design. As I say: we're an application of XML, and PIs did >not meet our needs. Thank you. So why can't all SOAP processors just ignore PIs? Or even give a fatal error when a PI is seen? What are the arguments for SOAP requiring a profile of XML that *does not include* PIs? paul
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