Well, Ines, it's still a bit unclear to me how XML fits the bill here. A few
questions to begin with:
- What aspects of your client/server data management would benefit from
having that data encapsulated in XML?
- Are you just looking for a convenient way of organizing the data, or would
the expression your data in XML dovetail with some other process?
- You say you're using a Perl script to capture and store at the server the
values in certain variables, but what is it about that process that doesn't
sit well with you? Why do you want to change what seems to be working?
It's easy to create XML document trees in memory using Lingo, and store
runtime values in the attributes and text nodes of the elements. Something
like my DOM-Lingo binding and implementation does that nicely. It's also
easy to send that XML (actually, the textural representation of the
in-memory tree) back to the server in a POST request using postNetText().
It's easy to parse XML documents in Lingo using the XMLParser Xtra.
All in all, XML is pretty easy to deal with...but, in your case, I'm
compelled to ask why?
Can I get you to examine your interest in utilizing XML in your project a
little closer, and then describe for me what you envision XML doing for you?
I can certainly give you everything you need to kick butt, XML-wise. But a
clearer understanding of how you believe XML might take your project to a
higher level will help me in targeting the support.
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
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-----Original Message-----
From: I R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 5:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> xml & lingo
we're working in a chat room which displays visual responses
to the
activities of the chat room. we have variables such as
totalVisitors,
entries, exits etc.
some of these variables we have to store externally and at
the moment we're
using a perl script for that. however, i want to see what
can be done in
xml, for instance, whether i can store the variables in xml
too and how to
make director access the data.
thanks for help!
ines
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