On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:54:27PM -0600, Brandon wrote: > > > SOAP and XML-RPC really suck for this - get over it. > > Substantiate this.
I see where you are coming from Brandon, and an XML protocol would be nice if it was appropriate, but this is a stream based protocol, and XML just isn't suited to that. This protocol requires that the client be able to parse information as it comes from the node, so that it can correctly handle failures etc, but XML can't really do this, since without writing a rather weird XML parser (which would defeat the purpose of using XML), you require an entire XML document before you can convert it to a DOM or SAX representation. XML just isn't the right tool for the job, nor is any other simple protocol out there. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010219/4b321b13/attachment.pgp>
