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		MatthewPhillips on March 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dudes, this is so not REST I've worked with APIs that return XML containing one node, which contains escaped XML. So when I read something like this it doesn't seem that bad.

wahnfrieden on March 15, 2011 [–]

That's fine. Just don't call it REST. Does buzzword compliance matter so much? Call it what it is: RPC.

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