IIRC Amazon offers two XML based interfaces: REST and SOAP. Personally I have never used them but 85% of developers prefer REST inteface to Amazon.

P.S. For anybody interested in REST vs SOAP topic many interesting links can be found here: http://www.myspotter.net/links.html.

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