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            The Blogger API via XML-RPC over HTTP on top of TCP/IP

I'm beginning to see what all this XML (eXtensible Markup Language)-RPC
(Remote Procedure Call) is all about. It's a more formal specification of the
WWW (World Wide Web) CGI (Common Gateway Interface) because I guess reading
the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) source and finding out the input fields
for a form, then URL (Uniform Resource Locator)encode the data to call the
external program is just too much work for some people.

I've done work before, [1] using, I guess, a form of CGI-RPC to implement a
program that does an Internet search using the major search engines to gather
the results. And yes, it's was (and still is to a degree) a pain because each
engine basically has a different calling convention (or API (Application
Program Interface) if you will). XML-RPC seems to be a way to standardize on
an API, such as a search engine API.

Not that it's a bad idea, but XML seems a bit overbloated for me. But I guess
for the type of services being done, like the Blogger API [2] it's not that
bad of overhead. And just think, if I can implement the Blogger XML-RPC API,
not only can I claim alphabet-soup compliancy, but I can use several tools to
write my blogger with, not just using a web form or email.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/refs/search/
[2] http://plant.blogger.com/api/

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