Since no one else has said anything, let me say this is the kind of 
lightweight approach that makes standards people foam at the mouth, but that 
everyone else actually wants to use, since it can be made fast, bug-free, 
and without depending on a zillion other things (although you are getting 
there :)

Keep going.

Mike

On 5/13/05, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> I've written a very trivial SOAP client in pure OCaml. I'm interested
> in what people think about the approach I've used.
> 
> Instead of parsing WSDL, what I'm doing is allowing you to define the
> interface as a familiar .mli file, as in the example below:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> type campaign = {
> dailyBudget : int;
> id : int;
> name : string;
> }
> 
> val hello : string -> string
> val goodbye : string -> string
> val concat : string -> string -> string
> val show : campaign -> unit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The .mli file is then parsed using camlp4 macros and converted into
> stub functions. These can be called, and generate real SOAP calls to
> the remote SOAP server.
> 
> I have a very early, experimental package for people to play with.
> This tarball contains a Perl server (based on SOAP::Lite) and the
> OCaml client.
> 
> http://annexia.org/tmp/simplesoap-0.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> It requires PXP, ocamlnet, equeue and PCRE.
> 
> Any type of feedback is very welcome.
> 
> Rich.
> 
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