Stan Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Subject: style="document" rulz! > And style="rpc" sucks! > To learn why, read this... > http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/2002_04/magazine/departments/endtag/
The author presupposes that having two applications "work" when they get out of synch is a good thing. I'd call that "silently failing". Personally, I'll accept if my HTML is presented quite as the remote author intended, but I'm not so sure I'd like my banking application (or insert any business use here) be so "tolerant" to miscommunication. Since WSDL allows for explicit & communication of the new interface (hopefully commented with version changes, but fat chance I know since WSDL is typically computer generated) I'd rather things break and I get the chance to re-evaluate. That -- and/or preserve the old interface, and allow the new interface for new clients. XML is not some magic glue that understands when things change. It might still allow a non-validating [or even validating, if remote schema] parse, and XPath may still access elements, but the application will not understand the change, and that could be very bad. Also -- having spent the last N hours trying to get "document style" to work I sure like the simplicity of explicit "tight" RPC. :-) regards, Adam
