Re: [xml] Creating a markup language

[Bob Rossi <bob brasko net>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:29:22PM +0100, Robert Sanderson wrote:
> yOn Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:20:04PM +0400, Nikolay Melekhin wrote:
> > > Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > > I am creating a protocol between two GPL'd applications. Basically,
>
> > > 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.
>
> With either XML-RPC or SOAP you don't need to transport them via HTTP. 
> They're just XML describing objects.  The advantage to using one of these 
> is that you can get toolkits to do all the hard work for you.

Sorry if I am overly ignorant, this is my first XML project. So far, I
have only read "Learning XML", which is how I got here :)

Are you basically saying that XML-RPC is a Markup Language basically
designed to handle commands sending/receiving?

I would have to construct documents of type XML-RPC, which I could do
manually, or I could use GSOAP or ZSI to help me automate the task? Similar
to how I would use libxml to help me create a tree, and then write it 
to disk, thus creating an XML file? 

Or another question that could help me better understand what XML-RPC
is. Is XML-RPC a Markup Language, just like MathML?

The only problem is, one of the programs I want to link this code into
is a very portable application that runs everywhere, and can't have a
lot of dependencies to build. Meaning, I probably can only have
libxml linked into it, since apparently it is very portable.  Does this
mean I am up the creek when it comes to XML-RPC?, or can I manually
create documents that meet this specification?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi