I'm not sure if anyone was actually intending to use something like this
for the IM pubsub stuff, but I wrote a Python script that uses Jamie
Turner's PyTOC module to do XML-RPI over AIM:

http://markpasc.org/code/xmlrpi/xmlrpi.py

Here's Radio showing that xmlrpi.py (before I renamed it and cleaned it up
some) was able to receive the RPI and send one back:

http://markpasc.org/code/xmlrpi/stateTheState.png

I wasn't sure how to make it respond to functions with dots in the name, as
I made it use real methods of a subclass unlike the real xmlrpclib--so it
doesn't. At least on Windows the PyTOC routines seem to eat the
KeyboardInterrupt exception, so you can't just ctrl-C out of the program
when it's running. It has a little protection against feedback loops (which
I'm glad I put in, since I have Radio respond to unintelligible tcp.im
messages with an error message, and it would've caused one otherwise).
Doubtless it could be adapted to use jabber.py as well, but I don't have
Jabber accounts to debug it with, so I couldn't.

But other than that, it works nicely.
--
Mark Paschal
markpasc@...
http://markpasc.org/blog/