Re: [xml] Creating a markup language

[Nikolay Melekhin <nikolay_melehin mtu-net ru>]

Bob Rossi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is the best place I could think of for asking this question. I hope
> someone is capable of providing me with an answer or maybe pointing me
> in the correct direction.
>
> I am creating a protocol between two GPL'd applications. Basically,
> process A sends a command to process B. Which then responds with the
> reply. I want to make process B respond in XML. This way, process A
> doesn't really have to worry to much about parsing.
>
> Basically, my question is, should I create a Markup Language for B that
> it will always reply to A with? Or, should I create one Markup Language
> for each command possible that B responds to A with? How can you
> compare/contrast these two models?
>
> If there were ten possible commands A could run through B, then the first case
> would have 1 large ML, while the second case would have 10 small ML's.
> I don't know which is better?, how they scale?, or what path I should go
> down. I can say that the output of B to A is generally small.
>
> Thanks for any help or advice,
> Bob Rossi
>  
You can try use XML-RPC protocol

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Nikolay Melekhin