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> That's the crux of this thread. Is the message that is transmitted *what
> is transmitted* or rather *something else* that is encoded in the
> message. If you are primarily looking from the vantage point of an
> application which communicates with another application *as if via RPC*,
> then the interface is primary and the bits on the wire are secondary. On
> the other hand if you are sending a document from one place to the
> other, then the document is primary. XML was not designed to be the
> "perfect" RPC protocol. XML remains a great way to "encode" documents --
> saying this seems like a tautology -- because to a large extent the XML
> *is* the document.
Fwiw, I think Jonathan is making an important point. It might help
to draw an analogy between XML document transfer and the data: URI
scheme.
Bill de hÓra
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Technical Architect
Propylon
http://www.propylon.com
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