exchanging data btwn Python and lesser languages

[Patrick Phalen]

[Harry G. George, on Wed, 08 Dec 1999]
:: What's the relationship between XML-RPC and Microsoft's SOAP?

Userland's Dave Winer worked with several others, including Microsoft
to define a Simple Open Access Protocol. It fit Dave's vision of
a scriptable Web without boundaries and it fit Microsoft's vision
of a Web without Java <wink>.

Impatient to get it used, and fearing that Microsoft might take a year
or more to sign off on an official recommendation, he went ahead and
submiitted the XML-RPC spec. Microsoft went on to add some (good)
features and released SOAP, with Dave's blessing. So, simply put, SOAP
is XML-RPC with addt'l goodies.