http://erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net/draft-xmlplusrpc-pre00.txt
This is an initial version of a RFC for XML-RPC (or "XML+RPC" here because of the trademark issue), and I really like to get some early comments on it. Initially it just was about registration of a MIME type for XML-RPC, which by advise from IETF and w3c should become "application/rpc+xml" somewhen (there is broad agreement that the currently used "text/xml" is blatantly wrong). And I guess that is what will likely come in the future, as this is only a minor change. I however wrote a complete RFC describing the whole protocol (only over HTTP), which introduces some changes to the rpc messages as well. There are no 'extensions' in this draft, but a lot of clearifications and restrictions regarding the message structure and syntax. And this is where I need help and some comments. The whole thing is about allowing heavily simplified XML-RPC implementations (without a real XML parser). Changes to D.Winers "spec": * clearly states charset (UTF-8, but Latin1 allowed) * clearifies XML usage (Canonicalized XML, no namespaces, no comments, no CDATA, no entities, no bonus XML tags) * changes in the transport, namely recommending compression (highly optional) So what I'm asking is, if such a stronger and restricted standard would require changes to the various existing implementations (other than the MIME type thingi). Personally I hope, it was adoptable without any additional effort. And asking the Apache developers first (haven't tried, but I guess it's again one of the better implementations), would help me to fill the missing parts. Possible problems I see in the current draft: * forbids XML entities, but "<" and ">" and "&" * forbids empty tags like <string/> But before anybody flames me for it: this is just an initial version, and also just a draft, and there is no reason to feel enforced to adopt it, even if it really became a RFC someday (which also is questionable). Or as the title simply suggests: "request for comments". Regards, mario
