>Anyway, from what you're saying doesn't my analogy still hold up,

Yup.

> that there has been a separation of content (ie. data) and presentation
> (ie.ui)? No matter what the transport mechanism is (I thought XML but you're
>saying it's more than that - SDL) wouldn't this be a good way of
>conceptualizing this?

Yup, the conceptualization is fine. I was trying to emphasize that the data is not necessarily in XML or any other format.

>I like your analogy of Web Services being like a COM server a lot.

And it's not even that much of an analogy. The SOAP toolkit lets you turn your VFP COM servers (or any other COM server) into a Web Service with little effort, using the Wizard.

> I was just trying to extend that into the ui & business logic pieces....

Makes sense to me, and I think your thinking is fitting.