SOAP and XML subsets

If we've had enough fun pulling on the strong/loose XML typing permathread 
for one day, there's always the "subsetting XML" permathread to entertain 
us.

This is in the news this week because the TAG has been discussing the 
question of whether it is a Bad Thing for SOAP to deprecate DTD internal 
subsets (and all they they bring to the party).  See the telcon minutes at 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Dec/0031.html

One result of that is that the XML Protocols WG was asked to explain this 
decision.  Noah Mendelsohn has drafted such an explanation and put it out 
for comments, see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist- 
app/2002Dec/0003.html

Comments (preferably constructive, but hey, this is xml-dev!) here or to 
 would be appreciated, I'm sure.