RE: XML and stateless protocols

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, so folks think that addressing the topic of external references and
stateless protocols is a good idea.  Here's my first attempt at text using
Mark's original words:

"4.13 External References

When using XML in the context of a stateless protocol, be it the
protocol itself (e.g.  SOAP), or simply as content transferred by an
existing protocol (e.g.  XML/HTTP), care must be taken to not make
the meaning of a message depend on information outside the message
itself.  XML provides external entities (see Section 4.12), which are
an easy way to make the meaning of a message depend on something
external.  Using schema languages that can change the Infoset, like
XML Schema, is another way."

Section 4.12 describes entity declarations and entity references.  If you
have any issues with this I need to hear them ASAP as I want to get -05 done
in time to meet the IETF-54 I-D cutoff date.

-Scott-