Sam Ruby is waiting for the light-bulb to go off. I think it's like this: SOAP is about XML, and XML-RPC is about scripting. When I want to call a function on my PHP server with a Javascript client, I don't want to be bothered with XML. I want the arguments to be native data structures, and the same goes for the return values. Both serverside and clientside. But when you're in a situation where you're already using XML and schemas etc., then SOAP is more powerful. Apis like Google's are used in both cases, so supporting both SOAP and XML-RPC would have been my choice.

• I'm scraping David McCusker's weblog and Eric Costello's weblog.
• For OPML fans running Mozilla:
  1. Bookmark this link:https://w3future.com/html/opmlloader.xml#%s.
  2. Add the keyword "opml" to the properties of that bookmark.
  3. Type "opml http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/instantOutliner/daveWiner.opml" in the addressbar.