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[Rob Seaman]

Presumably any proposal to drop XML would fail to win support from TCG and Exec.  That said, we might consider a Note presenting an isomorphic/reversible mapping to JSON.  First we need to wrap up v2.0.
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On Dec 16, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Alasdair Allan wrote:

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> Rick Hessman wrote:
>> While this discourse is reasonably entertaining, I keep forgetting the point.....
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>> Here are some theses I'd like to tack onto your virtual church doors:
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>> * XML is here and probably to stay and there's nothing reasonably useful to replace it (yet).
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> XML, SOAP and the entire WS-* stack and associated complexity has more-or-less proved to be a dead end. In the real-world it has long (a couple of years?) been replaced by RESTful architectures using JSON for transport.
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> For new development here at Exeter I've entirely switched to JSON based transports for various kinds, either RESTful calls or JSON-RPC when needed. I've more or less abandoned XML-based services,and am gradually reworking code to drop support for XML where practical.
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> As always however, YMMV.
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> Al.