Thanks Andy, so in that case it would be up to them to provide the interface as far as the visual displaying of the xml. And maybe even up to them to design the forms or take them from our exsisting site.
>Your best bet might be to write a web service which they could consume. Then >instead of your code being the action page for their form, theyt simply >query against your webservice, passing in a search term, and your code >returns a recordset in XML. > >So, to encapsulate, you would write the code to search your data and the XML >which would be returned. They would write the form to be used. Of course you >could also write the form itself. Then the setup time on their end would be >less. > > ><!----------------//------ >andy matthews >web developer >ICGLink, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >615.370.1530 x737 >--------------//---------> > >-----Original Message----- >From: Protoculture [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:52 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: XML/RSS Search Feed > > >Hello. Having never done what has been mentioned in the subject. I would >like a simple overview of the process. > >I'll be using Coldfusion to generate a recordset ( preumably xml ) in order >to allow other websites to perform searches against the data we store. > >My main questions are: > >(1) Does the client write the forms to be used for searching or do we supply >that to them. If we supply it, what formats can be used? ( ie. do we write >an xml doc that they must parse to fill in the data ? ) or could they just >use inline frames that point to templates on our site? > >(2) When the data is searched and it is returned ( again, presumably in xml >format ). Is it up to the client to format the visuals ( the html code >around the recordset, or is something like that generally considered to be >the hosts site responsibility? > >Thanks for any help or direction in this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220007 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
