While most of the RSS 1.0 modules are valid in
RSS 2.0,
few of these can be completely transported using the MetaWeblog
APIs using only the instructions found in
this
RFC, due to a lack of description of how to handle things like
attributes in namespaces, and elements with elements.
Does XML RPC permit
multiple members of a struct to have the same name?
XML-RPC Structs
Sam Ruby asks:Does XML RPC permit multiple members of a struct to have the same name?The XML-RPC spec is silent...
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"Does XML RPC permit multiple members of a struct to have the same name?"
You could probably interpret the specification that way, but most implementations represent them as hashes/dictionaries, so the only practical answer is no.
Fredrik gets it right. The spec doesn't disallow it, but it wouldn't work with most implementations. I know for sure it wouldn't work with Frontier or Radio.
Todays new essay is a follow up to a blog entry posted over 8 months ago. The MetaWeblog API has since evolved with the introduction RSS 2.0, and this lead to a new RFC. My questions on that RFC have gone unanswered, and I have expanded upon them in t...
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Sam the Patient Evangelist.
Sam Ruby continues his "patient evangelism" and has released a new essay entitled Evolution of the Weblog APIs. Its black and white arguments like these that made me lose favor with XML-RPC and the like and develop RESTful leanings. It puzzles me that anyone can still insist that XML-RPC is somehow simpler or better suited....
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Patient Evangelism. Todays new essay is a follow up to a blog entry posted over 8 months ago. The MetaWeblog API has since evolved with the introduction RSS 2.0, and this lead to a new RFC. My questions on that RFC have gone unanswered, and I have...