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    copied!<p>Please advise if you can.</p> <p>I am building an SMS web service API that will allow people to send SMS to their desired cellphone numbers. A request will be sent to the interface, we then process that request based on the account details provided and credits available on their account.</p> <p>We have two proposed XML structures for the interface request and I would like you to advise which one is better as we are going at each others throats about it.</p> <p>Interface A</p> <pre><code>print("&lt;?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?&gt; &lt;Message version="1.0"&gt; &lt;ClientID&gt;11111&lt;/ClientID&gt; &lt;PassPhrase&gt;shjfkh&lt;/PassPhrase&gt; &lt;Request Type="sms" Refno="10" ToAddress="27732687745332"&gt; &lt;Content&gt; hello world &lt;/Content&gt; &lt;/Request&gt; &lt;/Message&gt; "); </code></pre> <p>Interface B</p> <pre><code> print("&lt;?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?&gt; &lt;Message&gt; &lt;mmtag name="Version"&gt;1.0&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;mmtag name="ClientID"&gt;1001&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;mmtag name="RefNO"&gt;120&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;mmtag name="Encoding"&gt;base64&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;mmtag name="Type"&gt;SMS&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;mmtag name="Content"&gt;hello world&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;mmtag name="MSISDN"&gt;27781010102&lt;/mmtag&gt; &lt;/Message&gt;"); </code></pre> <p>Now, looking at the two examples, which do you think would be best-suited for our API interface, regardless of the technology in the back end. Please support your answer should you pick one.</p>
 

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