SOAP and BizTalk

Hold on! Before anyone yells, hear me out. I have seen that some on the list consider SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/soapspec.asp) a joke, and many of you may not be familiar with BizTalk, but they are based on Userland's XML-RPC spec (http://www.xmlrpc.org). While the standard is from Microsoft (whom i am personally anti), and Dave Winer (who is a egotist jackass extraordinaire), it makes a lot of sense, and is going to be fairly widely supported (I believe the folks at Digital Creations are going to do so). Now, I am looking to produce a reference implementation of SOAP in PHP. If someone else is working on this, I'd be glad to help. Otherwise I will do it myself. In addition, I plan to add BizTalk functionality as well. This will allow interaction between PHP applications (like the one I'm building for a customer) to interact with non-php applications and services (like Windows DNA, and Microsoft's BizTalk server, VB, Perl, Java) in a simple, but non-trivial way using XML. Now, my question is just this, anyone working on this? Is anyone interested in this? Ryan Gaul -- Marge: We can't afford to buy a pony. Homer: Marge, with today's gasoline prices, we can't afford not to buy a pony. Lisa's Pony