>> Paul, you have to stop looking at XML-RPC with your Elton John-style
>> XML-colored glasses. XML-RPC is not meant to be some sort of highly
>> structured hierarchical data representation that you can sniff around
>> in with arbitrary XML tools of one sort or another. That its
>> on-the-wire representation happens to be XML is almost ridiculously
>> unimportant.
Paul> XML-RPC uses XML for exactly the same reason every other
Paul> application of XML uses XML.
I disagree with that. Lots of applications use XML because it's got that
pants-wetting capability I described earlier.
>> Fine. I'm sure Shilad appreciates the input. I think your approach
>> to bug detection and reporting could have been a bit less heavy
>> handed.
Paul> I'm not trying to embarrass Shilad. The software isn't at 1.0
Paul> yet. Maybe he hasn't got around to choosing an XML parser.
Or maybe he has a different set of constraints than you.
Paul> I'm trying to point out (more to you, than to him!) that there is
Paul> a good reason to build on the work other people have done. If
Paul> pyxmlrpc is faster today it is probably because it doesn't conform
Paul> to the specs. When it does conform, it won't be faster anymore.
Why point this out to me? I am essentially just an XML-RPC user, not an
implementer. I happen to be interested in making my XML-RPC-using code run
faster. If I have to make some sacrifices I could care less, as long as my
clients and my servers can talk to one another.
>> As for handling things like CDATA, UTF-16 and extra whitespace after
>> tag names, I suspect some other XML-RPC packages would exhibit
>> similar problems if they were exposed to a standards-toting XML
>> gunslinger like yourself. That it's not a problem in practice is
>> probably because the set of XML-RPC encoding and decoding software is
>> fairly small and that the stuff that encodes into XML-RPC is fairly
>> well-behaved.
Paul> Every XML-RPC implementation I have ever used (Python, Perl, C,
Paul> C++, PHP) is based upon one pure XML parser or another. Most use
Paul> Expat.
Oh well.
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