Defining Returning Values of a Remote Method Call

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∟Defining Returning Values of a Remote Method Call

This section describes how returning values of a remote method call can be defined in XML format. The root element name is 'methodResponse'.

The third item of the XML-RPC specification is about how to define returning values of a remote method call in XML format.

XML-RPC defines returning values of a method call as an XML element called "methodResponse". The structure of "methodResponse is very similar to "methodCall". But only one "param" is allowed inside "params" as shown in the following XSD file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<!-- xmlRpcMethodResponse.xsd
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-->
 <xsd:element name="methodResponse" type="methodResponseType"/>
 <xsd:complexType name="methodResponseType">
  <xsd:sequence>
   <xsd:element name="params" type="paramsType"
      minOccurs="0"/>
  </xsd:sequence>
 </xsd:complexType>
 <xsd:complexType name="paramsType">
  <xsd:sequence>
   <xsd:element name="param" type="paramType"
      minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
  </xsd:sequence>
 </xsd:complexType>
 ......
</xsd:schema>

Here is an example of "methodResponse":

<methodResponse>
 <params>
  <param><value><array><data>
   <value><string>Bush</string></value>
   <value><string>Gate</string></value>
   <value><string>Yang</string></value>
  </data></struct></value></param>
 </params>
</methodResponse>