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XMLRPC-EPI This library is intended for use by those trying to implement XMLRPC support (http://www.xmlrpc.org) in their C programs. It was written because the author could not find any fast, complete implementations of XMLRPC, most of them thus far having been written in interpreted languages. It incorporates a few ideas from a previous C effort, Expat-Ensor. See http://xml.ensor.org for more info on that project. It has been demonstrated fully compliant with the XMLRPC spec, having passed the test suite at http://validator.xmlrpc.com. NEW! Shared libexpat support [unix systems] With the autotools update the default option to build against a shared libexpat has been added. The system will search /usr/include/ for expat/h and /usr/lib/ for libexpat.* if you have these files in another location please override LDFLAGS and CFLAGS with -L and -I options as approprate If your distro does not come with a libexpat, please get the latest version from http://expat.sourceforge.net [windows systems] Please download and install libexpat from http://expat.sourceforge.net, a windows setup.exe is avaiable for download and the visual studio project files are set to look in the location that the expat installer uses :- C:\Program Files\Expat 2.0.1\ NEW! EXPERIMENTAL support for SOAP. Experimental support for SOAP is now included. Both XMLRPC and SOAP can be read/written by the library, and the application need not worry about it, IE, there is a single API that works for both, and the choice is made at serialization time. When reading, the XML vocabulary will be automatically detected. For an example of using SOAP, see sample.c in the samples directory. Various iterations of this code have been/are running at Epinions.com and are sufficiently fast for the high traffic volume this site encounters, with several xmlrpc type requests generated for each user http request. No specific speed claims are made. Your mileage may vary. If you have robodoc installed on your system, API Documentation can be generated from source like this: cd src make html lynx xmlrpc_mi.html Sample programs are in ./sample. See ./sample --help or the source files for more info on these. It is the author's hope that this code will be found useful by someone, and would like to hear about how and where it is being used, or suggestions for improvement. Signed Dan Libby <dan@libby.com>, Epinions.com, Inc.
