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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Xend XML-RPC Refactoring
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:58:30 -0600
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To: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>, Matt Sottile <matt@lanl.gov>, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>, Sean Dague <japh@us.ibm.com>
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Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> I think moving from s-exp's to XML is a bad move. If you want, use 
> your s-expression library from LANL; it's used worldwide, and has done 
> the job for a lot of projects.

Python supports XML-RPC out of the box.  Using that code will remove 5k 
lines of code from Xend.

With Python, all you have to do is register functions with the XML-RPC 
handler and use a proxy object.  We won't have to write any XML code at 
all.  I'm quite indifferent to XML/S-Expressions actually.  It's just 
about simplifying things.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I know of at least one project that moved from XML to s-exp's, using 
> our library, because XML is just plain unwieldy.
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>