How about xml-rpc?:  http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec
Apache's implementation:  http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/

I've never used either, but it should work for your purposes.

Cheers,

~Chris

On 8/10/07, tom tom <tomxsllist@h...> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an industry standard XML format that could be used to
> encode function names and their parameters, something along the lines of:
>
> <function language="javascript" name="getAddress"
> location="http://www.address.com/pc.js">
>   <param name="postcode" value="W13 4UL"/>
>   <param name="houseNumber" value="23"/>
> </function>
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