- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:55:58 -0400
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
I'd like to point out a couple of notes I sent on this subject last week [1] and [2], which I will briefly summarize here: First of all, processing DTDs has a real cost in performance and complexity. While you can process SOAP messages with any XML processor, you can also write much faster processors for SOAP that don't mess with things like user-defined entities. PI's complicate the model, and for questionable benefit (see note [1]). So, adding these features back into SOAP is not free. I think we should leave them out. Many applications of XML use only a subset of its features (note [2])...SOAP is another application of XML and it should use the features that it needs. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Sep/0193.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Sep/0206.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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