Ever wonder what kind of hardware runs the great crawlers? This kind.
UIDesign has an article on XML vs. WML (Wireless Markup Language) as used by eCommerce and other CP’s (content providers). Their position is that CPs should be providing content in XML (i.e. RSS), and aggregators should provide WML representations of that content for the phone users. Aman, Brothers!
“Stepwise” has updated their look, and has pointers to WebObjects and Openstep developer positions today. Way to go, Scott!
On the topic of the “COM XML-RPC” code: one of the hangups we’re having is supporting VB Script’s stupid “Set” keyword. If an “XML-RPC” call returns an object, like a Scripting.Dictionary object, then you have to assign it in VBScript using:
Set myVar = rpc.Call(method…)
otherwise, for a simple value, you use:
myvar = rpc.Call(method…)
Well, you can’t use both at the same time. I think we’ve worked around it, but it means that VBScript users get their own method call: “rpc.VBCall()”; javascript and C++ users just use “rpc.Call()”. This VB-specific method gets an extra parameter, a variable to which the result is assigned for you.
Lesson: Use JScript for your ASP code.
I’ve added this to the “COM XML-RPC” page for future reference.
