[XML-SIG] WDDX for Python

[Jeremy Allaire]

Gabe-

This is awsome!  Lovin support for Python in the mix.  Is there anything we
can do to help solve problems on the serialization side?  Also, you should
drop a note to Nate Weiss (nweiss@icesinc.com) who is the creator of the SDK
so he can include your bits and build some samples off of it.

Also, FYI, PCWeek just ran a story on WDDX:
   http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,380476,00.html

Thanks and regards,
Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabe Wachob <gwachob@aimnet.com>
To: Jeremy Allaire <jeremy@allaire.com>
Cc: 'xml-sig@python.org' <xml-sig@python.org>; Simeon Simeonov
<simeons@allaire.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] WDDX for Python


>Hi folks-
> In response to this request, I put together a Deserializer (there
>are some issues in serializing that I didn't want to address yet) for WDDX
>data into a python object.
>
> One question I had is this:
>
>In the DTD, you show that a data element can contain one or more of any of
>the data types plus recordset/struct/array. Does this mean that this is a
>valid XML fragment:
>
><data>
><number>43</number>
><struct>
>...
></struct>
></data>
>
>I made the assumption that is was, so in my deserialization, I create an
>object WDDXObject which contains an array items -- in the previous case
>the array would contain a number as its first element, and the struct
>object (WDDXStruct) as its second element.
>
>If data has more than one child, then how do you refer to each child if
>you don't implement the deserialization the way I do with an array as the
>"top level" child of the deserialized object (I ask because I didn't want
>to do it this way, but I couldn't think of another simple way of doing
>it). What if you have two structs with two element variables with the same
>name?
>
>So, anyway, my deserializer fully implements the DTD and the spec as far
>as I understand it. It does not parse the timeDate type (I could throw it
>in a wrapper object with nice methods and all).
>
>The URL is http://www.aimnet.com/~gwachob/software.html
>
>It uses my current rev of my DOMVisitor.py  Everything is not well tested,
>and in fact, may not be the most efficient. However, here it is...
>
> -Gabe
>
>On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Jeremy Allaire wrote:
>
>> Hello folks-
>>
>> I'm interesting in engaging anyone/everyone from the Python community to
>> work with us on a WDDX platform module for Python.  With the help of a
few
>> developers, we've been able to muster/ship WDDX modules for ASP/COM,
Java,
>> ColdFusion, Perl and JavaScript, and would love to see a Python
>> implementation.
>>
>> Given the recent XML release for Python, seems like it would be a great
>> project to make cross-language distributed web applications even more
>> possible.
>>
>> Take a visit to www.WDDX.org, and most importantly take a view of the
SDK,
>> developed by Nate Weiss, which brings it all together with all of the
above
>> languages.
>>
>> Best and regards,
>> Jeremy Allaire
>>
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