Uche Ogbuji wrote:
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> Hmm. Interesting. One of the things we all seemed to agree on in the IPC10 Web services panel was that XML envelopes (or headers, at any rate) were a useful thing.
You've captured the critical point. XML headers are great. A full XML
envelope causes huge headaches. XML is not even properly recursive in
that you can't generally embed an XML document inside of an XML document
(without base64 or some other encoding). The vast majority of XML
vocabularies used in today's SOAP services are designed for SOAP. I'll
be curious to see what happens when people start ramping up apps pumping
through arbitrary XML.
Paul Prescod
