> How hard would it > be to turn the Manager into an RSS feed if XML were an option? (stupid > example but you get my idea)
How hard is it now for a particular task, about 20 lines of code, in less than an hour. Writing any sort of xml proxy to the manager interface is really trivial for any particular task that is. Not in general as its not structured data. So understand that the reason the manager interface isn't nice to work with isn't that the messages are a key:value pair, actually this makes it even easier than using XML. Its not as nice to work with because its not structured uniformly. If anything the manager interface doesnt need more limitations like making it specifically xml, what would be cool tho is having it replaced by a very simple socket interface with a really simple protocol (even simpler than it is now, possibly binary) with a uniform structure so that external processes can use it with no issues, that way you can slap on a soap interface, an xml-rpc interface, json(which is essentially key:value pairs as a javascript dictionary), DBUS, blah blah, with no issues at all. XML is good but lets not get all hyped up and lets use it correctly. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users