Re: Possibility of an XML Document Type

I agree.  Attachments should be used.

There seems to be enough fragmentation in the SOAP spec already providing too many avenues to accomplish the same goal.  Adding unnecessary datatypes opens the door for more interoperability challenges.

Best Practices need to be defined.

becky

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rich Salz 
  To: Corda, Ugo 
  Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org 
  Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:17 AM
  Subject: Re: Possibility of an XML Document Type


  > Yes, but I would prefer to reserve that for cases when it's really
  > necessary, e.g. when the main XML document has image attachments.

  I don't understand why images are "really necessary" and XML isn't, can
  you please explain?

  In general, I prefer attachments because the parsing is more efficient
  -- I don't have to create an entire string only to (quickly?:) replace
  it with an XML document.

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