Re: error handling of dangling references in encoding from Jean-Jacques Moreau on 2002-01-23 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from January 2002)

From: Jean-Jacques Moreau <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:11:58 +0100
To: Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@sun.com>
CC: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C4ED2BE.E81B8F16@crf.canon.fr>

+1 for SHOULD

Christopher Ferris wrote:

> On the call, I had suggested that use of the RFC2119
> SHOULD qualifier might be used in our spec. This would
> provide guidance to implementers that leaned towards
> MUST, but at the same time did not impose a hard requirement
> on the receiving node.
>
> As I understood from the discussion on the call, imposing
> a requirement to return a SOAP Fault might be problematic
> in cases where there might be good reason not to have to
> parse the entire message to determine if there were dangling
> references.

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