Damn, I forgot to attach the xml file... p.s.: read my mail, if you don't want to read huge mail and a lot of explanations, then skip that part...
KKRT
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:42:00PM -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> Hello all...
> I just love SOAP requests!!! the most annoying thing is the authentication,
> but now that it's all done, it should be fairly easy to add
> new stuff... like msn spaces.. it's been so long awaited but it's finally
> here!!!
> well.. not completly.. the protocol part is done, we still need the GUI part
> + a little XML parsing magic... as I said in my commit log,
> I'll send a msg here to explain the XML and how to use the Xml parsing
> functions... well, it's simple.. in the attached mail, I've put
> an XML file returned by ::MSNCCARD::getContactCard $email ... I hope that
> user won't mind... I cropped some of the info... anyways, I ask
> for 2 elements, and he has two elements, one is the 'myspace', the second is
> his album... he also might have had a blog... anyways, each
> element has some some info about it.. first, it's type as an attributes, then
> as entries : title, url and totalNewItems ... it can also
> have subelements... each subelement has as attributes a type and a
> lastUpdated field... it also has a description, title, tooltip, and url
> tags.. depending on the type of subElement (in the attached example, it's a
> Photo from an Album element) we can have a thumbnailUrl,
> webReadyUrl and albumName entries...
> To access all those informations using the Xml APIs I wrote, it's easy... you
> have only 3 APIs :
> GetXmlNode
> GetXmlEntry
> GetXmlAttributes
>
> ok.. they all take as argument an xml list... so when you have your xml as
> string, do a :
> set list [xml2list $xml]
> then call the APIs.. first one, GetXmlNode takes an xml list and a node path
> and returns a list representing that node.. example :
> set x [GetXmlNode [xml2list {<node1> <node2> <node3> hello </node3> </node2>
> </node1}] "node1:node2:node3"]
> puts "[list2xml $x]"
> would print something like : "<node3>hello</node3>"
>
> now, as you saw, the 'node path' is a ':' separated list of tag names... the
> same syntax as sxml... simple! :)
> Now let's see... assuming you have <node1> <node2 /> <node2 /> <node2> I want
> this one </node2> </node1>
> you can get that 3rd one by calling :
> GetXmlNode $xml "node1:node2" 2
> (first index starts at 0)
> now, the same for GetXmlEntry, only it returns the content's of a node, so on
> the previous xml, a [GetXmlEntry $xml "node1:node2" 2] would
> return "I want this one", you can also specify which element you want by
> adding the index number (optional) in the end...
> the same principle applies for GetXmlAttribute...
>
> Now for the attached Xml, you can use some simple combinations of
> GetXmlNode/Entry/Attribute to get everything you want... you should be
> able to get anything using the getXmlEntry API, but the GetXmlNode might
> become handy if you need a specific element.. example, you have
> many subElements, in both <element> and you don't know which index it starts
> for the album.. so you can do a GetXmlNode to get the
> "element" tag, then do a GetXmlAttribute to get the type of the element, once
> you get the album, you do a GetXmlNode to get each
> subelement of the node, then you work with it with GetXmlEntry ...
> Here's an example so you can understand it better :
> : set xml [::MSNCCARD::getContactCard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> : set list [xml2list $xml]
> : GetXmlAttribute [GetXmlNode $list
> "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element"
> 0] ":element" type
> SpaceTitle
> : GetXmlAttribute [GetXmlNode $list
> "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element"
> 1] ":element" type
> Album
> : GetXmlEntry $list
> "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element:title"
> Mathieu's space
> : GetXmlEntry $list
> "soap:Envelope:soap:Body:GetXmlFeedResponse:GetXmlFeedResult:contactCard:elements:element:url"
> http://tchatcho84.spaces.live.com/?owner=1
>
> etc.... it's a combination of GetXMlNode, GetXmlEntry and GetXmlAttribute...
> your job to parse that now... you see why I didn't want to
> parse it.. then I'd put it in an array and it would be complicated.. while I
> think all the data in there is related to the GUI and it
> should be parsed at the same time as the GUI is being built...
>
> Have fun!!! and good luck!!!
> now.. what should I code next... ^o)
> KaKaRoTo
>
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