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<sect1 id="zend.xmlrpc.introduction">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>
        From its <ulink url="http://www.xmlrpc.com/">home page</ulink>,
        XML-RPC is described as a "...remote procedure calling using HTTP as the
        transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple
        as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted,
        processed and returned."
    </para>

    <para>
        Zend Framework provides support for both consuming remote XML-RPC
        services and building new XML-RPC servers.
    </para>
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