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

[Vijay Saraswat]

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Zooko wrote:

> [Sorry if this is inappropriate for e-lang.  Please let me know.]
>
>  Ben Laurie wrote:
> >
> > "Jonathan S. Shapiro" wrote:
> > > 2. If it becomes useful to do RPC exchange with XML-based applications,
> > > XML-RPC may become an important de-facto exchange standard.
> >
> > Can we say SOAP?
>
> Actually the word I hear from various open source hackers (e.g. advogato.org)
> and from my little brother who implemented both XML-RPC and SOAP interfaces for
> Mojo Nation is that SOAP provides too many features, some of which are
> unneeded, that the spec is still too unstable.  It may be a case of the
> simpler, dumber, earlier solution beating out the technically improved one.
> (E.g. the way that C is still preferred over C++ by most open source hackers.)
>
> Or it may not.  Perhaps SOAP will mature quickly and perhaps the industry
> support for SOAP will carry some weight.
>
> 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...)
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>
> [1] rough draft:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/mojonation/evil/hackerdocs/LJ_article.html?content-type=text/html
>
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