On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:05:40 -0500, Eric Osman <ericosman@r...>
wrote:

>What I do want is the ability to send and receive xml from javascript 
>and talk to a web service.

Sending and recieving XML with javascript other than in a reduced
security environment (so you're generally talking web-services)  XML
parsing and GET/POST HTTP is available on a number of javascript
capable systems (IE/Mozilla and SVG Clients) it's a lot slower than
parsing other things - JSON being perhaps the most obvious.  

Because you control both the client and the server, you don't need to
use the XML benefits.

>It's been suggested to me that I look more into the "msxml" package, 
>which we have already been using to do XMLHttpRequest, and see what 
>functions it includes for sending and receiving and parsing xml.
>
>Do you believe I'm on the right track ?

you could do it like that, I wouldn't recommend not doing so, it's
very inflexible.  Maybe look at http://json-rpc.org/  or similar, but
anything that doesn't use XML parsing will open up the possibilities
considerably, that's the hardest part.

Jim.
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