Re: XML interface to cvs

[James Knowles]

> > > > What kind of interface are you looking for?
> > > A programmatic one.  
> > but XML describes data formats, not APIs.
> Exactly.  What's your point?  I think you have chosen to interpret my
> original question too literally.  It's similar to asking for an http
> interface to cvs.

...or that you expressed your question too loosely or vaguely. HTTP is a
well-defined, standard transport protocol. XML is a data organization
methodology. They are two completely different things. 

If you want a HTTP-ish protocol, are you in truth asking for something like
a WSDL server that wraps CVS? 

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