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> From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:27 AM > To: Adam Turoff; Dave Winer > Cc: Edd Dumbill; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: What does SOAP really add? > > > > The "SOAP brings interop for free" argument is simply a straw man. > > Especially when it necessarily prevents interop with a whole > > class of tools (XSLT processors for one). > > BTW, this is absolutely and completely wrong. SOAP messages are XML, > and therefore are able to be transformed with XSLT just like any other > XML. Many people have done this (and yes, I have too). In fact, it is But data exposed using SOAP usually cannot retrieved using GET, and therefore isn't easily accessible using XSLT's document() function. > only logical that SOAP messages can be more reliably transformed to get > *some* information than a more generic XML format. The idea that XSLT > against SOAP can't be done flies in the face of common sense. And the > idea that writing XSLT against Joe's-random-XML is more scalable or > productive than against SOAP also flies in the face of common sense.
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