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Don Box asks:
>> Is there an Infoset 1.1? Are there plans for such a beast?
Since writing my note, it has been pointed out to me that the current
Infoset provides under Document Information Item [1]:
"[version] A string representing the XML version of the document. This
property is derived from the XML declaration optionally present at the
beginning of the document entity, and has no value if there is no XML
declaration."
So, if you have a full document and a DII, then that's the place to signal
XML versions. I don't think there's a way to label an element info item
in isolation. In SOAP 1.2 we allow the DII and say [2]:
"The [base URI], [character encoding scheme] and [version] properties can
have any legal value."
OK, but I'm not sure that when we did that we quite anticipated that a
version of 1.1 would allow characters that were illegal in 1.1, and which
can't be sent by the existing HTTP binding...at least it's my preliminary
understanding that they can't. I'd be glad for someone more knowledgeable
to correct me.
Anyway, I think we want to go over the spec. carefully and make sure that
1.1 hasn't introduced any loose ends.
Noah
P.S. dropping xmlp-comments, as we are mainly using that to log initial
announcement and final resolution for potential issues. I think everyone
on xmlp-comments is on distApp.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/#infoitem.document
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-soap12-part1-20030624/#soapenv
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