Re: smsc_soap.c

Yes, and at least in my experience there's a lot of "generic" XML out  
there. XSLT looks like a good option for me, I'm only concerned with  
how much performance impact would have to run a transformation on each  
request.

Regards,
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Alejandro Guerrieri
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On 06/02/2009, at 7:44, Marius Huysamen wrote:

>
>
> I like gSoap as well.  I've played around with it to explore its use  
> in other projects, but there is one thing to take note of.  If you  
> are going to use gSoap, then you are choosing not to have user- 
> created XML templates.  gSoap takes a WSDL and generates C code to  
> handle the SOAP call described within.  Thus adding other XML  
> formats would require a recompile of the SOAP module.  The other  
> approach is to use it as a wrapper (transport manager) for generic  
> XML documents created at runtime with XSLT, but you loose gSoap's  
> strength of XML->C translation and type checking.
>
> Stipe Tolj wrote:
>>
>> Vincent CHAVANIS schrieb:
>>
>>>> This could be used for XML in general, right? Not only SOAP, I  
>>>> mean.
>>>>
>>> yeah we can say that. But the code is really old and does not fit  
>>> any
>>> standard specs.
>>> (no SAX or DOM parsing)
>>> Also it's really buggy.
>>> See the ML for some patch i've posted.
>>>
>> I strongly suggest if you guys are interested in the SOAP/XML  
>> stuff, to "bind"
>> the gw/smsc/smsc_soap.c module to gSOAP, which is a C SOAP engine,  
>> able to
>> generate C headers and code required to implement WSDLs directly.
>>
>> Have a view on:
>>
>>   http://gsoap2.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I used this for various parts in my MMSC implementation (MM7  
>> mainly), and also
>> for having a "modular" Apache SOAP application container to hook in  
>> logic into it.
>>
>> Stipe
>>
>>
>
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