XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:27 PM -0400 10/9/02, New, Cecil (GEAE) wrote:
> Under the covers of course it is a stream... but:
>
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getParameter(String name)
> (actually in superclass)
>
> returns a String value.  Unless a multipart encoding is used, ServletRequest
> parses and generally does all the grunt work and makes "form" values available
> easily like this.  Works the same whether from a POST or a GET.
>
> So I am assuming that passing an XML document created 
> programmatically in memory
> would be passed as "form parameter" to the receiving servlet.
>
> I wonder which encoding is used or is envisioned for web services?

I suppose this is possible, but that's not how either XML-RPC or SOAP 
work. Both send an XML document as the body of the HTTP request. They 
do not x-www-form-urlencode it so it would not be available through 
.HttpServletRequest.getParameter(String name). XML-RPC and SOAP both 
send the raw XML.
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