- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:53:34 -0800
- To: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
- Cc: "David Fallside" <fallside@us.ibm.com>, "Noah Mendelsohn" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
Regarding issue 395 [1] which is the remaining SOAP 1.2 last call issue listed in [2], here is a proposal for resolving it. The issue states that we should check that it is clear that the HTTP binding prohibits DTDs. All in all, I think the current text is fine and doesn't need tweaking. Given that we define a special media type for serializing SOAP, the issue has to be considered in two steps: 1) what are the rules for the media type "application/soap+xml" and 2) what are the rules for other media types. 1) Checking the description of the media type "application/soap+xml", it says [5]: Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in [RFC 3023], section 3.2, as applied to the SOAP envelope infoset. Given that this quite clearly says that the serialization is limited to the SOAP envelope infoset which in [3] clearly prohibits use of DTDs, I don't think there can be any confusion here. 2) Regarding other media types, in [4] we explicitly state that other media types may be used by the HTTP binding and that such media types can define additional/alternative rules for carrying the SOAP infoset: Conforming implementations of this binding: 2. MAY send requests and responses using other media types providing that such media types provide for at least the transfer of SOAP XML Infoset. However, the spec provides no detail as to what those rules may be which I think is exactly right in that this is defined by the respective media types. I would therefore suggest that we close it without further changes. Henrik Frystyk Nielsen mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-lc-issues.html#x395 [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-lc-issues.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part1.html#soapenv [4] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#httpmediatype [5] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#ietf-draft
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