What is XML-RPC? It's a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet.

It should be possible for an HTML coder to be able to look at a file containing an XML-RPC procedure call, understand what it's doing, and be able to modify it and have it work on the first or second try.

The new JavaScript toolkit for XML-RPC supports a JSON syntax. Below are five examples first showing the standard XML-RPC syntax followed by the experimental JavaScript syntax.

The MetaWeblog API uses an XML-RPC struct to represent a weblog post. Rather than invent a new vocabulary for the metadata of a weblog post, we use the vocabulary for an item in RSS 2.0.

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But back then I didn't have a website to document this stuff, and I didn't have "XML-RPC" as a great insurance policy against this kind of misbehavior. All they can do is screw SOAP, they can't screw …

5. If Google asks us to turn this off, we will do it, quickly. 6. UserLand does not keep a copy of the keys that pass through this server. We don't use this information in any way, and will not do so in the …

And I'd go further to say that I'd be just as happy if they had used REST or XML-RPC. I think that what goes over the wire is nowhere near as important as the fact an interface to a popular Web application …