[ciapug] XML

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

In reference to my question yesterday regarding the use of XML, I
discovered that my competitors are using a Microsoft SharePoint Server
to exchange information via XML.

This is really not the tool I'd want to implement this process. I was
thinking more along the lines of using a website like an API.  Suppose I
had the url:

https://data.request.xxx.org/query.php?reference_number=123456

The query.php script would then query the database for the record, and
dynamically generate the page formatted in xml.  The only problem with
this is that I'd need some way to authenticate the user.  I'd also need
some type of application on the client side that could generate the
request and process the output. (I'm wondering if I could strip down 
apache and hack it up to do this)

Anyone else though of doing this? Building a set of tools to do this
could be a option.  The only thing I've found so far is XML-RPC 

http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html

But I haven't quite had a change to play with it.  Also, I'm really
uncomfortable opening up a server for RPC's....


Any thoughts anyone?





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