Re: Proposed Clarification for Issues 4 and 23

Are we sure we want to get into PI's?  One of the nice things about 
writing an efficient SOAP processor is you don't need to deal with quite 
all the minutia of general XML.  As this discussion illustrates, even 
small features like PI cause complexity:  must you fault?  can you fault? 
what does it mean to understand a PI?  If SOAP doesn't allow PI, do we 
really have sufficiently compelling reasons to reintroduce them?  Also, it 
feels to me like there might be some question as to which PI's are to be 
interpreted generically to the envelope, and which would have to be 
understood by the code processing, for example, a header.  Are we sure the 
value outweighs the added details to be gotten right (in both spec and 
code?)

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