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Re: Sean McGrath hits a home run

• To: <michael.h.kay@n...>,"'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>,"'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Sean McGrath hits a home run
• From: "Jeffrey Winter" <j.winter@n...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:37:46 -0500
• References: <000501c2a527$d88dbb70$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

> This is of course what encapsulation is all about. Encapsulation
> prevents hacking; it raises the level of abstraction; it prevents
> programmers getting locked into today's implementation of an abstract
> service.

The XML representation is itself the product of the generic
encapsulation of the underlying resource provided by HTTP/1.1.
To imply that an XML-RPC API (for example) is an encapsulation
and HTTP is not, to me simply isn't accurate.

They are both encapsulations; the question is: which encapsulation
is better able to address the trade-offs that you raise.

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