Re: [xml-dev] What does SOAP really add?

Paul Prescod wrote:

>Already, Microsoft's GET and POST bindings
>demonstrate that you can get *exactly the same* XML type mappings
>without using SOAP. And if you aren't interested in pre-declared types,
>XML-RPC is more reliably interoperable in my experience than SOAP.
>
Respectfully, I'd say that Microsoft's GET and POST bindings demonstrate 
exactly the opposite - that as soon as you use any parameter structure 
less trivial than a name/value list, VS.NET uses SOAP instead.

Francis.