Michael McGlothlin wrote:
REST is the new SOAP. Yaml is the new XML. I'm guessing this news
just hasn't made it into any PHP frameworks yet.
REST is fine for small communications but really isn't a very good
solution for large and complex communication. SOAP is the 600 pound
gorilla. Usually I use XML-RPC because it's sort of the middle ground. I
usually use REST mostly for simple services that just need a simple
trigger and response - often stuff I want to run from cron jobs. I save
SOAP for the rare job that REST or XML-RPC can't do although in those
cases I usually stop to consider if I'm making the problem more complex
than it needs to be.
YAML doesn't seem significantly easier (faster & less intensive) to
parse than XML, it doesn't seem as flexible as XML, and it's less
familiar for developers to work with so I don't really see the benefit.
It seems to exist entirely because some people didn't like the way XML
looked. It might be slightly smaller than XML but that's hardly an issue
since you can always compress your data. YAML fits in the same boat as
people pushing binary XML. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. It's
almost always cheaper to throw more CPU time at a problem than man hours
and YAML is less obvious to work with than XML so it doesn't make
business sense. If you really want something fast and non-intensive to
parse then use tab-separated values or something similar.
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Michael McGlothlin
Southwest Plumbing Supply
*wades in*
XML is by far superior to anything else out there for one reason and one
reason only; the DOM API.
Concider a "node" or an "element" compared to an array or a typical
variable, no contest in terms of functionality at all; attributes alone
win it hands down, without taking into account parent/child nodes,
namespaces, nodeNames & nodeTypes, pervious, next.. not to mention the
associated methods for inserting, appending, searching by tagname &
namespace.
More than this, DOM functionality is available both server and client
side, with exactly the same value names and function names.
XML is the perfect transport for DOM "objects" between servers, programs
and clients; it's already widespread and not used properly nearly enough.
The only drawback I can find is the lack of storage support, unless
somebody out there knows a way to full text a specific node type in 10k
xml documents as wuick as you could query a column on 10k db rows?
*ducks out*
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