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Title: RE: XML over HTTP: SOAP and ...? > -----Original Message-----
SOAP isn't just MS, although having their name on the spec pretty much masks anyone else's involvment ;-) > often means that there's a non-Microsoft alternative
There are plenty of XML-based transfer syntaxes out there that get applied to HTTP. We had a BOF at XTech and one at Sun/Netscape. A bunch of folks are working together to try to get everyone to converge on some common ground. I even have a picture of me hugging Larry Cable from Sun. > I gather from
That has always been my understanding. I just uploaded my XML-RPC->SOAP XSLT. Check out http://soap.develop.com/xmlrpc. As SOAP is a functional superset of XML-RPC, one can go from XML-RPC to SOAP with no loss, going the other way is tougher but doable. I am hoping to work with the XML-RPC community to spec out a canonical way to go back and forth. My XSLT is a first step in that direction. > After reading the above comment from David, I wondered: what
Here's a partial list: SOAP: http://www.develop.com/soap
Also, WIDL, WDDX, RosettaNet, ebXML, and a few dozen others I can't remember off hand. We looked at a lot of prior art while working on SOAP, and I think you can see the influence of a lot of existing marshaling protocols. DB
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