what style soap is it? given that it's perl you're using i expect it's not doc
literal, do you have to interact with wsdl, xml schema? messaging done using xml
wrapped data over various protocols might be the future. i doubt soap is it. 
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Bryan Rasmussen


Quoting Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> * Andreas Bolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050108 04:11]:
> > 
> > 
> > Saturday, January 8, 2005, 3:02:42 AM, Tim wrote:
> > 
> > > Why use XML-RPC in place of SOAP?
> > 
> > I've not really kept a tab on SOAP during the last 2 years, but back
> > then XML-RPC was simple and lightweight (with its own set of problems)
> > where SOAP was complex and kinda bloated.
>  
>   Greetings Andreas!
> 
>   FYI: We are *required* to use a SOAP envelope to receive an XML
>        data feed from a Real Estate Multiple Listing Service.  That is
>        getting to be kind of an industry standard and in the USA
>        web-based or internet-based Real Estate Multiple Listing
>        application is growing.
>        
>   Currently my partner is using perl code with a SOAP library to obtain
>   this data feed. I also program in python which has second-party
>   libraries (not bundled with the python distro thus far) for SOAP.
> 
>   I do think that SOAP is a wave of the future, bloated or not.  Don't
>   know if SOAP "under the hood" has been streamlined or not. The perl
>   interface - that is, the content of the "envelope" - looks a lot like
>   your examples on XML-RPC.
> 
>   thanks
>   tim
> 
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