- From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:00:58 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-app@w3.org
I bring to your collective attention the thread on the TAG public mailing list starting at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Nov/0156.html titled "SOAP's prohibiting use of XML internal subset." As this has been discussed in great detail on this list, perhaps it would be useful to educate the TAG on why this feature of XML is not supported. Pointers to the most useful bits in the archive would be helpful. The formal resolution to Issue #4 doesn't capture the reasoning in a way that we could present to the TAG. I recall, but can't find a "killer argument" to the effect that the real problem is that XML is not composable if DTD internal subsets are allowed. I also recall arguments to the effect that internal subsets could declare entities, which have numerous interoperability problems. Others?
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