Kevin Hutson: XML News

XML-RPC.com: Dave's Rebuttal to REST:
Dave's right. I bitch a lot about the "web service" hype also. Perhaps I should forget about it and trudge on. The technology is not as important as the result. I can't believe I just typed that. I must be getting old :-) Still, it would be nice for Google to bring back the old XML interface. Most people could do a lot of cool stuff with that XML interface. I put together something with moreover.com's XML interface and was quite pleased with it. No SOAP needed. I even had "integrated" the Google search results with our Intranet results. But, what happened? Google turned off the free tap and started charging :-(

Hello Google box!
Wow, Dave. That was so damned easy to setup. I'm impressed. It took me all of 3 minutes to modify my site to use the new GoogleAPI. Here is how to use the GoogleAPI with Radio and Frontier.. That includes signing up for it, adding the code snippet to my template and republishing my page. Good stuff!

Scripting the Google SOAP API via VBScript
It's a mega-posting weekend. Why not..Anyway, I couldn't pass this one up. The GoogleAPI is going to be something righteous!

Neat! Note to self: implement this RSS feeds subscription list script later. Created by Jon, but implemented and (even better) documented by Jenny.

Java Java Java!
You can now easily subscribe to the Main Lounge now. See the XML Coffee Mug on the right. I should probably redesign this a bit so that you can more easily subscribe to the other category pages. If you're just interested in soccer stuff or Japanese or what have you, it's nice to filter that way.

I'm attending a seminar on web services this morning. I would normally have to parse the hype, but I know the speaker, so my expectations are a little higher. He's a Java guy, so I know it won't be just Microsoft propaganda.

Radio UserLand for developers
Here's another great link. I've been using Radio now since the new year and I didn't know I could do this. I thought I was going to have to going into the root database and create scripts. But, doing it from the file system is so whack ;-) I'm in love with my Radio.

What is XML-RPC?
"In fact one server tool called Radio (created by UserLand) is quite impressive as it provides an enormously powerful API (based on XML- RPC and SOAP as well) which enables websites of huge complexity to be create very simply. What Microsoft is hailing as a Hailstorm of innovations, Radio has probably already delivered the basic tools for... for only $39."

My friend just reminded me of something that I forget to check out. The free Brinkster membership. So, I might setup something there so that I can have an ASP load in my RSS then transform it? How about a page that transforms my Stapler feeds on demand? Pretty sweet!

OK. Mark, you rock! Stapler is da tool! It took a few tries to understand how it works, but it's not too bad. I created a WorldSoccer source using the ByNumbers scraper. My selector seems to work ok. Here it is:

tr td a img

And check "Include selected tag" That grabs the headline image off of the Yahoo World Soccer page. Next, "Make a Feed for this Source" Stapler will default the name and everything. If Subscribe is an option, click that. Then click Publish. At least, I think I have the steps correct. Anyhow, I've not got a weather and a Garfield (for no particular reason) source as well. The weather doesn't need a selector because it uses the wunderground scraper. Very nice! But, this ByNumbers scraper should meet my needs just fine. Oh yea, the Garfield selector is:

td[align=center] a img[alt="Garfield]

yes! First post from the Stapler scraper. Surely this can be automated to post hourly? hmmm...

My Stapler feed, which is grabbing the latest Austin, TX weather seems to be working. Now, to get a template for it.

Chris over at MassLess has a XML/XSL Editor that runs in your browser.

OK. I don't like to advertise unless it's cool, but I can't wait to get to Livelink 9.1. It looks like they took the XML features a step further. Now featuring XML import. Sweeet.

Here is the news and info on this stuff. Looks like a lot of stuff.

I'm so jazzed. I figured out how to use the XMLExport feature in OpenText's Livelink 9 before I left work today. And, it has it's own server-based XSL processor. So, you can take it a step further and transform stuff. This is going to be really cool. So, you have a system that can hold all types of ojbects, documents, tasks, URL's, workflows, and now structured data like XML. Not to mention that the searchin index kicks some serious ass. When I found out I could use regular expressions on it, I nearly swooned.

What happens when Unix is Macintosh?

RSS 0.91 Spec, revision 3. RSS is back! Way to go Netscape. Oops, sorry we don't have the old spec anymore. Oh, here it is. ;-) Just in case Netscape loses it again, Dave has archived it here. Of course, getting up to speed on RSS 0.91 is easier on the Backend @ Userland. If you are able, go and start using RSS 0.92 since it finalized. Whatever you do when you are getting started with XML, for God's sake, don't make up your own standard. Shop around first. Chances are there are multiple formats that already support the type of data you are going to use. Just because you aren't sharing now doesn't mean you won't later. Save future developers some hassle, eh?

xmlhack - RosettaNet to integrate ebXML messaging. Support for the OASIS/UN ebXML electronic business project grows as RosettaNet announce plans to integrate the ebXML Messaging Services specification into future releases of their implementation framework.

We are begining to use RosettaNet at work. I got to look at some of those specs in Biztalk. Damn! They are freaking big! But, I guess you have to be pretty big to support so many possible meanings of a particular dialect. That's still better than EDI, I say. At least we have a consistent parser in XML. Now, we just need consistent standards.

This is sweet. Posting from Word with SOAP!

Groove: It's the brainchild of Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie. Netmeeting on crack? Maybe. Nonetheless, a nice product for preview release.

I understand it even fully supports COM, although I haven't tried it yet. It you don't like what it offers, you can add new tools to your collaborative workspace.

I wonder what role XML plays here too? RSS? SOAP? time to dig ;-)

XML plays a critical role as P2P technologies head for the enterprise

Dave, Jake: A Busy Developer's Guide to SOAP 1.1. Draft. [Scripting News]

There are now 41 SOAP 1.1 implementations. [Scripting News]
5:38:52 PM [Jake's Brainpan]

AltaVista Adds Moreover's Technology for News Search Service. Yahoo! Mar 20 2001 4:30AM ET [Web developer news]

It's nice to see someone else wiring up newsfeeds to make finding information easier. Not that it's specifically mentioned, but I'm sure RSS has a large role in this transaction. Let's face it. Big honking search engines don't hold the same value that they used to. Three years ago, I probably hit a search engine several times a week. I'm lucky if I use one once a month now. More often than not, it's to translate something using babelfish.

W3C XML Schema reaches Proposed Recommendation. The W3C XML Schema specifications (0 1 2) have reached Proposed Recommendation status. [xmlhack]