Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu
> [mailto:owner-freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Justin
> R. Erenkrantz
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 4:01 PM
> To: cdindex nospam at freeamp.org
> Cc: freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: RE: XML
>
>
> 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
> >
>
>