RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] SOAP, XMLRPC and WSDL

At 15:36 23/05/2002 -0700, brad lafountain wrote:

--- "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no> wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 00:10, brad lafountain wrote:

--- "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no> wrote:

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:28, brad lafountain wrote:

One reason is xmlrpc doesn't have everything that goes along with

soap.

meaning WSDL UDDI WebServiceSecurity.

WSDL can be implemented through the introspection stuff in ext/xmlrpc. It's just about describing/documenting the available interfaces, right? UDDI is just a catalog service AFAIK, so that would fit better on

top of

the SOAP stuff.

and as far as i understand that xmlrpc doesn't work on windows. and with some benchmarks phpsoap so far was 3 times as fast as

xmlrpc.

Really? What XML parser are you using?

libxml2...

I'd really like stuff like this to build out of the box in PHP. Bundling expat was great because we didn't have to think about it anymore. My impression is that libxml2 is rarely installed by default (GNOME still uses 1.8 for instance). But I guess we'll have to deal with that sooner or later anyway, since libxml2 looks like the best xml library out there and more extensions want to use it. Could we bundle libxml2, or does the LGPL prevent us from doing that? I don't know about the LGPL but i would love to see it bundled. This would also help the domxml extension cause it requires a newer version than most people have.

The easiest thing is to contact the author and ask him for permission. Then you don't have to worry about licenses. We did the same thing with other code which was included. Andi