Date:         Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:49:20 +0100
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From:         Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Requesting summary counts
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> My experience of very thin clients - say for example an XSLT client - is
> that they find it very easy to ignore unwanted data. :-)

Right with a rule to ignore everything that isn't understood.

On the other hand, a SOAP client that doesn't have the handlers for the
arbitrary XML will just explode.

Rob



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