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Bruce Eckel talks about simplifying XML manipulation:

Alas, I haven’t seen XML-RPC used yet in web-servicey things. I hope that it is used somewhere, but if you read my previous entry you’ll see that the first two services I tried to use — Fedex and the Post Office (and UPS apparently also works this way) — uses something that’s almost XML-RPC, but it’s not, and you’re expected to assemble your XML by hand and then use HTTP to send it to the server, then unbundle the XML that comes back.

As many of you know, I used to be a huge fan of XML… until I actually tried working with it. Now I agree with Nate that if XML is the answer, then you are asking the wrong question.

That said, it’s an interesting article. Check it out.