Write a tiny SOAP parser

SOAP is a bloated variant of XML.
XML is a bloated variant of SGML.
SGML is bloated text.

"Tiny SOAP parser" therefore seems pretty oxymoronic to me.

I'm sorry to poo-poo your idea, but if SOAP gets implemented before the userland API improvements I've been begging for, I'm going to cry. Would you mind sharing what it is that you're using that requires *web services support* on your empeg? I work for a $550 billion mutual fund company and we're not even using web services yet because the specs and standards are changing every three days.