Hi Randal,

Thanks. I've added those links to the web site and quoted you... ;--).

While it is important to consider other standards especially if they are
popular it's also important to make sure that the XML Smalltalk format
doesn't compromise any smalltalk related requirements. XML is great for the
exact reason that it's extensible.

Peter William Lount
peter at smalltalk.org
http://xml.smalltalk.org

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From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
To: Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org>
Cc: Squeak Mail List <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: xml.smalltalk.org and mod.smalltalk.org
Date: January 28, 2000 12:50 PM

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> writes:

Peter> I think it's important that we have a "XML" ASCII standard for
Peter> storing BOTH "Smalltalk source code" and "Smalltalk object
Peter> instances".  Interoperatability is becoming very important and
Peter> being able to share object instances with other languages and
Peter> systems would revolutionize the Smalltalk usage in the real
Peter> world.

If you want an XML marshalling for objects, it'd be great to be
compatible with either the WDDX standard, or the SOAP standard, as
much as possible.  Unfortunately, both seem to have big backers (SOAP
from M$, and WDDX from Allaire), and are incompatible.  SOAP seems to
have derived from the XML-RPC camp, which also has more visibility.

SOAP is at http://www.develop.com/soap/
WDDX is at http://www.wddx.org/

Peter> In addition I think it's important that there be an Apache Web
Peter> Server module for Smalltalk. A ModSmalltalk. Any computer
Peter> language that tightly intergrates and interoperates with the
Peter> Apache Web server in an Open Source manner can gain prominance
Peter> in the Web Site and Web Applications Market.  Smalltalk has an
Peter> excellent potential to be the engine behind many powerful, yet
Peter> to be built, web sites.

Oooh oooh!

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