[capidl] Re: [E-Lang] Concerning XML docs

[Mark S. Miller]

At 09:35 AM Monday 9/24/01, Zooko wrote:
>But for, e.g. my upcoming Mojo Nation API [1], which is aimed more at open
>source hackers than at buzzword-compliant industrial policymakers, we are
>definitely using XML-RPC instead of SOAP.  (And, actually we are also providing
>a C API front-end that does RPC to the backend over XML-RPC.  My guess is that
>the C API front-end will prove more popular than the actual SOAP protocol...)

This seems like the worst of both worlds.  I understand the motivation to be 
standard, which would lead to SOAP, and the motivation to be good, which 
would lead to S-Expressions or something similarly simple (as you have 
corroborated).  But XML-RPC, though better than SOAP, is neither standard nor 
good.  What am I missing?


        Cheers,
        --MarkM