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

["Josh Larson" <joshual000@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In message <200403161531.22066.pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Pogonyshev
> <pogonyshev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
> > Please point me to any _communication protocol_ that is based on XML.
> http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_soap.shtml

SOAP helps pay for my mortgage as well :)
SOAP has it's applications.
IMHO SOAP/XML replacing the GTP is probably not one of them.

imho asking for XML as a basis for go software communication is based on the 
following reasoning:

1. XML 'appears' to carry with it a simple standardization not acheived with 
the GTP
2. XML 'appears' to simplify parsing when using an external library

1 depends upon 2 to be 'simple'.
2 creates a software dependancy for all go software(s)

the problem I see with the whole argument is that use of an XML based 
protocol only simplifies
the *parsing* of the command/data.  The software still must interpret and 
act on the command.
> From what I've seen of GTP, the parsing aspect is simply not complicated 
enough to justify such
steps.


-Josh Larson

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