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To: mozek who wrote (46705)	6/15/2000 3:26:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

...could Sunspot also use Perl as 'glue' to more efficiently tie everything together? Perl seems pretty impressive with its database drivers. andy

To: mozek who wrote (46705)	6/16/2000 3:04:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

Yes, when I first saw an article about SOAP, I got extremely interested. It seems though, that SOAP makes things more complicated than it needs to. Have you ever seen a site, where you have a search result, and then you click an Excel icon, and you get the search result into Excel within half a second? We made such one without using ActiveX. It's crossplatform and also works on Linux, with Lotus 1-2-3 and Corel Quattro Pro. It took us two days to make. XML is not that interesting, because it requires programming on BOTH the client and the server side, whereas plain old ASCII, RTF, SLK, PDF etc. only require programming on the server side.