RE: Opaque data, XML, and SOAP from Eugene Kuznetsov on 2003-02-28 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from February 2003)

From: Eugene Kuznetsov <eugene@datapower.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:56:56 -0500
To: "'John J. Barton'" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>, "'Ray Whitmer'" <rayw@netscape.com>
Cc: "'Don Box'" <dbox@microsoft.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <017c01c2df5b$2ac4e540$32640a0a@EKi4100>

>    We should have a standard that allows a sender to combine 
> XML with some non-XML data in a way that a receiver can parse
> the XML and access the non-XML data.  It shouldn't matter if 
> the XML is SOAP or not.

Yes. Although I think that from a practical standpoint, it may
be easier to do this for SOAP rather than XML in general. 


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