noone cares??? ^o)
are we soon going to see some 'msn spaces' GUI integration with amsn ?
KKRT
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:43:15PM -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> Damn, I forgot to attach the xml file...
>
> p.s.: read my mail, if you don't want to read huge mail and a lot of
> explanations, then skip that part...
>
> KKRT
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:42:00PM -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> > Hello all...
> > I just love SOAP requests!!! the most annoying thing is the authentication,
> > but now that it's all done, it should be fairly easy to add
> > new stuff... like msn spaces.. it's been so long awaited but it's finally
> > here!!!
> > well.. not completly.. the protocol part is done, we still need the GUI
> > part + a little XML parsing magic... as I said in my commit log,
> > I'll send a msg here to explain the XML and how to use the Xml parsing
> > functions... well, it's simple.. in the attached mail, I've put
> > an XML file returned by ::MSNCCARD::getContactCard $email ... I hope that
> > user won't mind... I cropped some of the info... anyways, I ask
> > for 2 elements, and he has two elements, one is the 'myspace', the second
> > is his album... he also might have had a blog... anyways, each
> > element has some some info about it.. first, it's type as an attributes,
> > then as entries : title, url and totalNewItems ... it can also
> > have subelements... each subelement has as attributes a type and a
> > lastUpdated field... it also has a description, title, tooltip, and url
> > tags.. depending on the type of subElement (in the attached example, it's a
> > Photo from an Album element) we can have a thumbnailUrl,
> > webReadyUrl and albumName entries...
> > To access all those informations using the Xml APIs I wrote, it's easy...
> > you have only 3 APIs :
> > GetXmlNode
> > GetXmlEntry
> > GetXmlAttributes
> >
> > ok.. they all take as argument an xml list... so when you have your xml as
> > string, do a :
> > set list [xml2list $xml]
> > then call the APIs.. first one, GetXmlNode takes an xml list and a node
> > path and returns a list representing that node.. example :
> > set x [GetXmlNode [xml2list {<node1> <node2> <node3> hello </node3>
> > </node2> </node1}] "node1:node2:node3"]
> > puts "[list2xml $x]"
> > would print something like : "<node3>hello</node3>"
> >
> > now, as you saw, the 'node path' is a ':' separated list of tag names...
> > the same syntax as sxml... simple! :)
> > Now let's see... assuming you have <node1> <node2 /> <node2 /> <node2> I
> > want this one </node2> </node1>
> > you can get that 3rd one by calling :
> > GetXmlNode $xml "node1:node2" 2
> > (first index starts at 0)
> > now, the same for GetXmlEntry, only it returns the content's of a node, so
> > on the previous xml, a [GetXmlEntry $xml "node1:node2" 2] would
> > return "I want this one", you can also specify which element you want by
> > adding the index number (optional) in the end...
> > the same principle applies for GetXmlAttribute...
> >
> > Now for the attached Xml, you can use some simple combinations of
> > GetXmlNode/Entry/Attribute to get everything you want... you should be
> > able to get anything using the getXmlEntry API, but the GetXmlNode might
> > become handy if you need a specific element.. example, you have
> > many subElements, in both <element> and you don't know which index it
> > starts for the album.. so you can do a GetXmlNode to get the
> > "element" tag, then do a GetXmlAttribute to get the type of the element,
> > once you get the album, you do a GetXmlNode to get each
> > subelement of the node, then you work with it with GetXmlEntry ...
> > Here's an example so you can understand it better :
> > : set xml [::MSNCCARD::getContactCard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : set list [xml2list $xml]
> > : GetXmlAttribute [GetXmlNode $list
> > "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element"
> > 0] ":element" type
> > SpaceTitle
> > : GetXmlAttribute [GetXmlNode $list
> > "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element"
> > 1] ":element" type
> > Album
> > : GetXmlEntry $list
> > "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element:title"
> > Mathieu's space
> > : GetXmlEntry $list
> > "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element:url"
> > http://tchatcho84.spaces.live.com/?owner=1
> >
> > etc.... it's a combination of GetXMlNode, GetXmlEntry and
> > GetXmlAttribute... your job to parse that now... you see why I didn't want
> > to
> > parse it.. then I'd put it in an array and it would be complicated.. while
> > I think all the data in there is related to the GUI and it
> > should be parsed at the same time as the GUI is being built...
> >
> > Have fun!!! and good luck!!!
> > now.. what should I code next... ^o)
> > KaKaRoTo
> >
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