Skip wrote: > I don't know about the OP, but in my case it was a drop-dead simple > cross-language RPC protocol.
Exactly. RPC implementations. Typically these are a quick "do this with this" sent from the client, with a brief "okay, I did that, here's the result" back from the server. Shovelling huge amounts of data using any XML encapsulation leads to a certain code smell at the very least. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
