SOAP, WSDL

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>]

>>>>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>>>>> Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> writes:

 >> If you can provide the hacked and unhacked Debbugs.wsdl I can try
 >> them out in the test suite.  We'll also need to retest "live"
 >> debbugs-gnu carefully as part of the merge to check for regressions.

 > Well, there isn't such a thing like "unhacked Debbugs.wsdl".  When I
 > started to write debbugs.el, I had also to write Debbugs.wsdl from
 > scratch, because it didn't exist.  The BTS guys use Perl's SOAP::Lite
 > module, no need for a *.wsdl file therefore.

	… Which brings this long unasked question of mine: why can’t we
	just have soap-lite.el, too?  And thus cease to bother about
	either Debbugs.wsdl, /or/ WSDL support in soap-client.el in
	general – in the cases the service at hand doesn’t happen to
	provide a ready to use WSDL file.

	(I’m not a SOAP expert, but I’ve got an impression that WSDL is
	an entirely separate layer used over “plain” SOAP.)

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