[computer-go] XML (was Re: GTP and Tourney in SmartGo 1.4)

[dave.denholm@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I've been holding off contributing to this thread, hoping it would
die out, but it's still lumbering along.


Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In message <200403161531.22066.pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Pogonyshev
> <pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
>>Please point me to any _communication protocol_ that is based on XML.
>

That was going to be my point.

> http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_soap.shtml
>

To me, the problem is that XML describes documents. Whole documents.
There's no such thing as a "stream" of XML. It's not xml until the
end marker has been received and processed.

I don't know anything about soap (or xml, for that matter), but a quick look
at the docs suggest that it is rpc-like, and a complete request is sent to
the server (over http), which processes it and sends a complete document back.
So these are not stream-like protocols.

For GTP to use XML, every request would have to be a complete XML document.
Which is possible, I guess, but I'm not sure what it adds.

dd
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