Hi Ted, 

Ted Leung wrote:  
> How about just a feature to turn entity expansion off?

Neil's proposal is in line with the SOAP spec [1] which prohibits
DOCTYPE and I am not sure why you consider this feature an overkill..? 
If we only introduce the feature you are proposing,  Xerces will still
process an internal subset, which is forbidden by the SOAP spec and will
have performance implications (even if no entity expansion occur).
Moreover, if the default configuration is chosen, and document includes
a DOCTYPE, Xerces will include the DTD validator which again will slow
up processing and on top of it, the validator will attempt to normalize
attribute values (as defined in the XML 1.0 spec) -- and this means that
Xerces parsing of SOAP messages is not interoperable with any other
implementations.

So I don't any reason why we should not introduce the feature proposed
by Neil...


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapenv

Thank you,
-- 
Elena Litani / IBM Toronto

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