Prestidigitation
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Croydon: So what else do you have up your sleeve, Sam?
The way to find it is to take my simple challenge. Try it on the small sample I identified. Then we'll talk...
Completely specified or drop-dead simple.
Sam Ruby: Matt Croydon: Translating that into an XML-RPC call hurts my head. That's because the MetaWeblog API doesn't specify how to deal with required attributes. Or with namespaces. Or with nested XML elements... Of couse, one c...Excerpt from Blogging Roller at
RSS based APIs. Matt Croydon: Translating that into an XML-RPC call hurts my head. That's because the MetaWeblog API doesn't specify how to deal with required attributes. Or with namespaces. Or with nested XML elements... Of couse,...
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Okay, I'll bite. I created some metaWeblog calls using Net::Blogger's metaWeblog implementation. The problem is that I'm not sure quite how to pass the source element.
I'm supposed to be able to use any item element in RSS2.0, but Radio chokes on the source element. It complains that it can't find any sub-table called 'source.'
My installation of Radio might be hosed: a radio.root update to test a new feature went bad a few months ago, and it's been quirky since. I've been putting off a reinstall because of the horror stories that I've heard.
Beyond that, I'm still not sure how to send the source information, as the RSS 2.0 spec states:
"Its value is the name of the RSS channel that the item came from, derived from its <title>. It has one required attribute, url, which links to the XMLization of the source."
Translating that into an XML-RPC call hurts my head.
I'll try to test it out on a clean copy of Radio when I get a chance, but I can't promise anything. As a side note, MovableType only implements a few elements from the metaWeblog.newPost struct, and source is not one of them. No luck for testing there.
By the way, the reason I didn't post the XML-RPC call here is that I haven't found a way to format it for posting to a weblog/comment without it looking UGLY.
Also, I thought you were going to make that big 'ol logo up top clickable...
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