[kw-pm] xml

lloyd carr dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org
Sun Feb 22 15:47:19 CST 2004


> Screen-scraping is best-effort only.  If you want any kind of reliability
> whatsoever you MUST standardize and NOT give the people who make the pages
> purdy the ability to muck with it.  That is precisely why you get wonderful
> things like XML -- you can pass the data to the page purdyfier with
> something like fop and let the artists do their thing, but still get the
> data in a reliable format by picking it off just before the artist.

Amen, but again much of what I see is machine to machine or program to
program communication in which case you don't need a "purdyfier" ;-)

>
> Or, do it right in the first place and offer XMLRPC or SOAP interfaces.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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