Re: [xml-dev] Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services

> Consider these two examples;
> 
> POST some-uri HTTP/1.0
> Content-Type: application/xml
> [blank line]
> <number>3<number>
> 
> and
> 
> POST some-uri HTTP/1.0
> Content-Type: application/xml
> [blank line]
> <add>
> <number>3<number>
> </add>

In the first example, the action is implied by some-uri.  Your second 
example shows SOAP RPC, where the action is specified by an element. 
Your first example could be a SOAP "doc/literal" approach.

This isn't a REST issue.
	/r$