Re: XML and stateless protocols

[Mark Baker <distobj@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:12:34AM -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> How is this unique to XML, and thus of specific concern for the draft?  One
> could take the general statement of "care must be taken not to make the
> meaning of a message depend on information outside the message itself" and
> apply it to _any_ protocol design.

Of course, but XML and some closely associated technologies like XML
Schema, have features that can very easily break statelessness for you
(external entities, PSVI).  I would expect that users of XML in the
IETF and elsewhere, would want to be made aware of this.

MB
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