Re: [xml] Creating a markup language

[Bob Rossi <bob brasko net>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:20:04PM +0400, Nikolay Melekhin wrote:
> 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

Thanks, unfortunately, the 2 process's described are really low level.
Apparently, the only way they can communicate is through a pipe. So, I am
stuck to that environment.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi