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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Doesn't REST also use XML? > Only for results, as far as I can make out. Unless anyone has come up with a standard way of sending XML parameter blocks with HTTP GETs? For those of us who get excited about sending and receiving schema-valid XML messages this is a bit frustrating. >It may be that the programming model (procedural >invocation of remote procedures) is given >resistance to learning a new paradigm. So >far, the REST architecture would appear to be >superior based on the reliability of the components >for processing URIs, safe operations, scaling >of simple methods over the confusion of every >programmer rolling their own and each having >to learn essentially, a new API for every service. > having schema-valid GET parameters could make the web even more open - if my train timetable query uses a schema which enumerates all valid stations for the toStation and fromStation attributes, then a smart browser, maybe using an XForms plugin, would help me build my query, but I would still be able to embed or link to the resulting GET. Increasingly I feel that more of the value of Web Services will come from WSDL than from SOAP. Francis.
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