[jdom-interest] Suppressing <?xml version="1.0"?>

[Joseph Bowbeer]

Thanks for the clarification.  I got my bit of information from Neil
Bradley's XML Companion, by the way.  (Perhaps he was influenced by your
earlier work.)

Regardless of whether <?xml version="1.0?> is a procession instruction or
not, it seems clear from the SOAP examples that - whatever it is - it isn't
expected and is probably not permitted.

When the SOAP spec says "the Envelope is the top element of the XML document
representing the message" it suggests something like an ElementOutputter to
me.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo at metalab.unc.edu>
To: "Joseph Bowbeer" <jozart at csi.com>; <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Suppressing <?xml version="1.0"?>


>
> At 8:03 PM -0700 8/21/00, Joseph Bowbeer wrote:
> >By the way, I noticed that the XML Declaration (processing instruction)
is
> >suppressed in SOAP messages.
> >
> >  http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/#_Toc478383492
> >
> >    "All SOAP messages are encoded using XML. ... A SOAP message MUST NOT
> >contain Processing Instructions. ... The Envelope is the top element of
the
> >XML document representing the message."
> >
>
> However, the XML declaration is not a processing instruction.
> Therefore a SOAP message that contains an XML declaration still does
> not necessarily contain any processing instructions. A cursory
> inspection of the section you reference shows nothing that prohibits
> an XML declaration in a SOAP message.
>
> I incorrectly claimed that the XML declaration was a processing
> instruction in my first XML book. I did get it right in the Bible. I
> apologize for having spread this misinformation. Mea culpa. Mea
> maxima culpa.
>
>
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