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XML-RPC and WSDL

Charles Cook: The very informal API specs that XML-RPC seems to attract are often wrong, or misunderstood so that the server implement something different. Businesses are using XML-RPC for serious purposes and this potential for confusion wastes time and money. [via Simon Fell]

Agreed. I still haven't found an answer to the question as to how one codes multiple categories in a metaweblog API. If you are going to pass structured data, I find the SOAP serializations are much simpler and easier to understand than XML RPC.

A review of blogging APIs

May 03, 2003 a review of blogging APIs As I was looking again at the space of remote-access APIs for weblog software (working on the XML-RPC Weblog Sync feature of clevercactus), I found that there was no side-by-side comparison of the main...

Excerpt from EPimntl: Blogging at

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