RE: XML

Justin R. Erenkrantz (justin nospam at erenkrantz.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:00:37 -0800

Using this method, portability is out of play. Win32 has a totally
different method of network communication than *NIX. The library should
only return the data that the client should send to the server. Let the
client determine its communication path. Regardless of what some of the
people are saying, most people who use CDDB are probably going to be
Winheads (or pinheads <g>).

My 2c,
Justin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cdindex nospam at freeamp.org [mailto:owner-cdindex nospam at freeamp.org]On
> Behalf Of Gary D. Foster
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 10:36 AM
> To: Jeffrey Baker
> Cc: cdindex nospam at freeamp.org; freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: XML
>
>
> >>>>> "JB" == Jeffrey Baker <jwb nospam at cp.net> writes:
>
> JB> Well, for us unix-heads, there is a nice lib-xml. The GNOME
> JB> project is using it successfully.
>
> I'm thinking more along the lines of a library to do all the lookup
> and parsing... something along the lines of a set of function calls to
> actually generate a query (as well as a submission) that return a
> pointer to a struct which contains all the CD information. That way,
> player developers don't have to code all the actual parsing or lookups
> at all, they just push a button, the library calls initiate the http
> (or whatever) connect and return the data. They just go off and use
> it.
>
> -- Gary F.
>
>
> --
> "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and quietly
> strangled." Bennett Cocks, 1973
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