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Re: What does SOAP really add?

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: What does SOAP really add?
• From: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:06:28 +0100
• Cc: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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Paul Prescod wrote:

>Already, Microsoft's GET and POST bindings
>demonstrate that you can get *exactly the same* XML type mappings
>without using SOAP. And if you aren't interested in pre-declared types,
>XML-RPC is more reliably interoperable in my experience than SOAP.
>
Respectfully, I'd say that Microsoft's GET and POST bindings demonstrate 
exactly the opposite - that as soon as you use any parameter structure 
less trivial than a name/value list, VS.NET uses SOAP instead.

Francis.

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