Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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XML-RPC Explicit Types

Author:	Hannes Wallnöfer
Posted:	2/10/1999; 7:20:04 AM
Topic:	XML-RPC Spec Update
Msg #:	2800 (In response to 2798)
Prev/Next:	2799 / 2801

Simply put, the explicit type tags (integer, double, date, boolean) make work harder for languages that don't know these different types, while making it easier for languages that do.

Languages in the first category include (AFAIK) Tcl, Perl and partially EcmaScript (which only has a Number type for both ints and doubles). I think the current Perl library works around this by using special methods to encode/decode certain argument types.

I am personally also for keeping the current explicit types.

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