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+PHP is a programming language designed to be embedded into web pages.
+
+This PHP extension provides functions to write XML-RPC servers and clients.
+You can find more information about XML-RPC at http://www.xmlrpc.com/,
+and more documentation on this extension and its functions at home page.
+
+The user of this library will typically be implementing either an
+XMLRPC server, an XMLRPC client, or both. The client will use the
+library to build an in-memory representation of a request, and then
+serialize (encode) that request into XML. The client will then send
+the XML to the server via external mechanism. (XMLRPC-EPI does
+*not* include a transport layer, not even HTTP.) The server will
+de-serialize the XML back into an binary representation, call the
+appropriate registered method -- thereby generating a response.
+The response will be serialized into XML and sent back to the
+client. The client will de-serialize it into memory, and can iterate
+through the results via API.