[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Abraham Williams
Because search was originally a separate company that Twitter acquired. And
they didn't provide XML.

There a plan to fix this:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap#MergingRESTandSearchAPIs

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:03, Carlos carlos.crose...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
 and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
 xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
 supported best regards, Carlos




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[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Metcalfe

Atom is XML

On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos carlos.crose...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
 and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
 xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
 supported best regards, Carlos


[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Abraham Williams
As is RSS but but RSS, XML, json and Atom are the four formats that Twitter
provides on various methods.

Abraham

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 16:35, Ben Metcalfe ben.metca...@gmail.com wrote:


 Atom is XML

 On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos carlos.crose...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
  and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
  xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
  supported best regards, Carlos




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[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread JDG
I think he means the XML schema that's returned if you use the .xml suffix
for many API calls.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 15:35, Ben Metcalfe ben.metca...@gmail.com wrote:


 Atom is XML

 On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos carlos.crose...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
  and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
  xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
  supported best regards, Carlos




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