For what it's worth, I now have an XSLT that takes an arbitrary XML-RPC request and "soap-ifies" it. It took me about 2 hours and it applies to ANY XML-RPC message. Support for response + fault should be easy. DB http://www.develop.com/dbox > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 7:39 AM > To: Box, Don; SOAP@discuss.develop.com; Xml-Rpc@Egroups.Com > Cc: Tim O'Reilly (E-mail); timbl@w3.org; tbray@textuality.com; > ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us; Daniel.Veillard@w3.org; connolly@w3.org; > eric@w3.org; xml-dist-app@w3.org; Henrik Frystyk Nielsen > (E-mail); Steve > Vinoski (E-mail) > Subject: A lively day in XML-RPC-land > > > Good morning! > > Yesterday was a lively and interesting day in the world of XML-RPC. > > A coming together that's going to make a lot of good things > happen, imho. > > On the SOAP mail list I asked why SOAP and its decendants can't be > compatible with XML-RPC. > > Don Box said: "FWIW, it is totally possible to transform > XML-RPC requests > into SOAP requests at the wire-level. However, there are > constructs in SOAP > that have no natural mapping in XML-RPC. That stated, I would > welcome Dave > and other XML-RPC people to help draft the canonical mapping > of XML-RPC into > whatever we call this thing we converge on. Once we have that, getting > interop should be no problem. Inclusion, not exclusion, is > the order of the > day." > > Bravo! I think this will please everyone who's interested in > distributed > computing based on XML and HTTP. Everyone gets what they > want. Some time to > soup up SOAP, and we can go forward building apps using > XML-RPC, knowing > that when the next-level SOAP is ready, our apps will be compatible. > > I've also made contact with a few other W3C and IETF > participants, hope to > have some announcements soon. UserLand may run a press > release asking for > industry support for XML-RPC. We have an immediate opportunity for > developers of Web content management software, and for developers of > writing, design and graphics tools. > > Also, I promised to put together a page of links of > background information > on what we're doing at UserLand to build out the Two-Way-Web. > Here's the > link. > > http://dave.editthispage.com/linksForW3CIETF > > Thanks to everyone for the positive spirits! I'm very excited > about what our > industry is doing. > > Dave Winer > UserLand, USA >Received on Saturday, 4 March 2000 11:02:36 UTC
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