Editing XML-RPC (section)

== Criticism ==
Recent critics (from 2010 and onwards) of XML-RPC argue that RPC calls can be made with plain XML, and that XML-RPC does not add any value over XML. Both XML-RPC and XML require an application-level data model, such as which field names are defined in the XML schema or the parameter names in XML-RPC. Furthermore, XML-RPC uses about 4 times the number of bytes compared to plain XML to encode the same objects, which is itself verbose compared to [[JSON]].<ref>
{{cite web
| url         = https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376688
| title       = What is the benefit of XML-RPC over plain XML?
| date        = 9 September 2009
| publisher   = [[Stack Overflow]]
| access-date  = 7 April 2011
}}
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{{cite web
| url         = http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/XmlRpcDiscussion?action=show&redirect=DontUseXmlRpc
| title       = An open poll on the merits of XmlRpc versus alternatives
| date        = 22 November 2006
| publisher   = intertwingly.net
| access-date  = 7 April 2011
}}
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{{cite web
 |url         = http://joncanady.com/blog/2010/01/14/if-you-have-rest-why-xml-rpc/ 
 |title       = If you have REST, why XML-RPC? 
 |author      = Jon Canady 
 |date        = 14 January 2010 
 |publisher   = joncanady.com
 |access-date  = 7 April 2011 
 |url-status     = dead 
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130511053512/http://joncanady.com/blog/2010/01/14/if-you-have-rest-why-xml-rpc/ 
 |archive-date = 11 May 2013 
}}
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