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> That's the crux of this thread. Is the message that is transmitted *what > is transmitted* or rather *something else* that is encoded in the > message. If you are primarily looking from the vantage point of an > application which communicates with another application *as if via RPC*, > then the interface is primary and the bits on the wire are secondary. On > the other hand if you are sending a document from one place to the > other, then the document is primary. XML was not designed to be the > "perfect" RPC protocol. XML remains a great way to "encode" documents -- > saying this seems like a tautology -- because to a large extent the XML > *is* the document. Fwiw, I think Jonathan is making an important point. It might help to draw an analogy between XML document transfer and the data: URI scheme. Bill de hÓra -- Technical Architect Propylon http://www.propylon.com
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