[Zope] WDDX anyone?

[Kapil Thangavelu]

Albert Boulanger wrote:
> 
> Has anyone considered WDDX for Zope? This seems like a nice next step to
> 
> exchanging data beyond RSS, but not as ambitious as SOAP and has SDKs
> for  CF, perl, etc.
> 
> I have some applications in mind for intranet syndication that goes
> beyond what RSS can do. Also there is full rdf.
> 
> From: http://www.wddx.org/

<SNIP> 

> WDDX provides a module for
> each language that will automatically serialize or translate the native
> data structures into an abstract representation in XML, or deserialize
> WDDX XML into a native data structure. For example, you could use WDDX
> to take a complex array in ColdFusion, serialize it into XML, send it to
> an ASP server, and then deserialize from XML into a VBScript array
> object with all the types natively converted. This conversion process
> between languages is relatively transparent to developers by shifting
> any XML processing and interaction into the WDDX modules, eliminating
> developers from having to directly program or manipulate XML themselves,
> 
> This is not an RMI mechanism.

So what about this couldn't be emulated with xml-rpc?

Curious,

Kapil