Re: SOAP and entities.

> Basically, can you have a DOCTYPE in a soap document? 

The short answer to this one is nope.

SOAP 1.1 says:
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  A SOAP message MUST NOT contain a Document Type Declaration.  
  A SOAP message MUST NOT contain Processing Instructions.

but doesn't specify exactly what to do with entities.

SOAP 1.2 says:
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  A SOAP message is specified as an XML Infoset that consists of a document 
  information item with exactly one member in its [children] property, which 
  MUST be the SOAP Envelope element information item (see 5.1 SOAP Envelope). 
  This element information item is also the value of the [document element] 
  property. The [notations] and [unparsed entities] properties are both empty. 
  The [base URI], [character encoding scheme] and [version] properties can have 
  any legal value. The [standalone] property either has a value of "yes" or has 
  no value.

  The XML infoset of a SOAP message MUST NOT contain a document type declaration 
  information item.

  A SOAP message SHOULD NOT contain processing instruction information items. 
  A SOAP receiver MUST ignore processing instruction information items in SOAP messages 
  that it receives.

which indicates that no entities can appear in the SOAP message.

 --oh

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