Re: Should Xindice be retired?

[Tom Bradford]

Dave Winer is of the opinion that to modify XML-RPC would be to break  
all implementations of it, which isn't necessarily the case.  I'm also  
curious Vadim, what return types can't otherwise be coerced?

I had an idea for a much slimmed down protocol called XRPC, I don't  
know if anyone would like to work on an implementation with me, but  
it's a much leaner, and attempts to support things like literal XML and  
a tighter binding with XML Schema datatypes.  Also supports an  
asynchronous model.

        blog entry at
                http://tbradford.blogspot.com/2003_09_23_tbradford_archive.html
        spec and schema are at
                http://tbradford.blogspot.com/2003_09_26_tbradford_archive.html
Ryan, XMLWriter needs to be modified to support proper UTF-8  
serialization... I took a shit-fit this weekend and created my own  
derivation of Apache XML-RPC's client to do all this stuff, you might  
want to take a look at it:

	http://tbradford.blogspot.com/ 
2003_11_30_tbradford_archive.html#107023953359946198

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On Dec 3, 2003, at 4:54 PM, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
Not yet. I am out of free time right now (it's hard to find time for  
two jobs, three projects, and family, so there is still some time  
left to sleep), but I'm thinking I'll catch up on xindice in the  
beginning of next year (february timeframe). Then, next beta release,  
or 1.1 release, is in order (depending on issues left). Xindice also  
will be shipped in the Cocoon, in embedded mode, and some samples  
will be provided.

BTW, how's your work on chaning XML-RPC protocol so it does support  
all the necessary return datatypes?

Vadim

I for one have found success using Xindice 1.1.  It has served me well  
as a hierarchical persistent store for one of my projects, and I am  
eyeing it for use in several others.  I also happen to be a committer  
on Apache XML-RPC.  So, I'll raise my hand and ask what I can do to  
help.  Got an archive link for me?  I have not been subscribed to  
xindice-dev for many months yet, so I may have missed it.

Re: changing the XML-RPC protocol, I have been down this road once and  
Dave Winer is not at all open to changes to the protocol.  Userland  
owns the trademark, and he has made it clear that he wants to prevent  
dilution of the name XML-RPC.  I have encountered many ways to  
transmit complex data in XML-RPC messages while conforming to the  
spec, so show me the details! :)

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