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Moin,
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 21:14, Jim Higson wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Yes, I agree. However, it should not be assumed that the agent is a robot, it may be a thick client written (like mine) in AJAX, GTK or some other thing.
The the format is something which can be agreed on, but the actualy point is that there's alot more that needs a robot interface than just your 32 character edit token.
Ok, I agree here. Some kind of simple XML format might be a nice way to do it because we'd get the parser for 'free'. XML'd also fit in well with the XML from Special:Export
XML and simple is an oxymoron :) While I agree on the robot-api, I think XML is overkill. It would, for instance, make necc. that every robot includes the whole XML libs just to parse the response, which throws simple libwwwget Perl robots out of the window.
KISS :)
Best wishes,
Tels
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