Re: So what do SOAP and XML-RPC buy you?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> The only unique* component here is that the data passed as the content
> are represented in the calling language as compound/complex objects
> conforming to [little-s] schemas rather than streams of mime content.

That's what I'd call a marshaling API.  In this case, it'd be a policy-rich
layer over the "stream of MIME content" style APIs that already exist.

The XML-over-HTTP messaging would use those stream'o'MIME
calls directly, rather than with intervening policies for SOAP etc.

- Dave