On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:39:42PM -0600, Brandon wrote: > First of all, in case there is any confusion on the matter, I'm not > suggesting we implement an XML-based protocol. That would be very > silly. I'm suggesting we use an already existing protocol, in particular > I'm in favor of XML-RPC. XML-RPC handles the case which you speak of just > fine. Absolutely peachy. Because it doesn't use XML documents, it uses XML > fragments. So you can pass back one chunk at a time. Besides, there are > two flavors of XML parsers, those that read the whole document and those > that are stream-based and tell you about each tag as it comes. So you're > confused about how XML parsers and XML-RPC work.
I see, so instead of implementing the relatively simple client protocol, people need to find an XML parser capable of parsing fragments, for whatever language they are using, or write their own. This strikes me as a worrying barrier to entry... What exactly is the advantage of implementing it the way you describe (in concrete terms please, give examples)? I have pointed out the disadvantage (it would either require a very significant programming effort, or the availability of a library for the platform people are developing for). 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/20010219/46bb4606/attachment.pgp>
