gregarican wrote: > 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. > Especially when people try to pass large amounts of free text (like Python scripts) as attribute values ;-)
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