Re: XML+RPC vs BCP70 , <?xml?> processing tag abuse?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Short version: This is a very bad idea.

Medium version: see 
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml/chapters/14.html

Long version: Read Effective XML.

This proposal violates many principles of good XML design, even such 
basic principles as well-formedness. This proposal is fundamentally 
flawed, and cannot be fixed. It is damaging to XML-RPC. It is 
damaging to XML.

Boiled down, what this proposal says is you do not want to use XML 
for RPC calls. That's fine--XML is not the solution to all 
problems--but please don't call your new syntax XML, and honestly I'd 
much prefer it if you didn't make it look anything like XML so as to 
avoid the inevitable confusion among users.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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