help with SOAP

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
>At about Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:58:01PM -0500,
>Walter Vaughan blabbed on about:
>> 
>> Wouldn't this be what perl is really good at? Heck, you could even create a 
>> alien file that filePro could read directly.
>
>Yeah, but it's non-trivial in any language.  SOAP really should have just
>been called OAP.  There's nothing simplistic about it--in fact, it's one of
>the most bloated standards I've ever seen.
>
>> http://www.geocities.com/herong_yang/perl/soap_lite.html
>
>www.soaplite.com is the official source.

I haven't tackled SOAP yet, but have done a fair amount with it's
simpler relative, XMLRPC.  From what I've seen, the python
interface to these is *MUCH* cleaner than perl's.  Basically python
takes a line to define the server, and xmlrpc calls are virtually
identical to any other function call.

I don't know the specifics of this problem, but I would probably
write a python script that takes apart the SOAP data using one of
the standard XML libraries, and format it to something that's
easy to deal with in FilePro, perhaps tab delimited fields.

Bill
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