From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T08:35:03+09:00
Subject: Re: xml-rpc client result

On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:05 PM, James Gray wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2007, at 4:58 PM, s.ross wrote:
>
>> As a followup, I can parse the returned XML string using XmlSimple,  
>> which works ok. I just thought the parsing took place automagically  
>> in the XMLRPC parser.
>
> OK, forgive me for not getting this, but you've shown us two pieces  
> of XML.  One look XML-RPCish, but the other did not.  Can you please  
> show the full response, as you receive it?  If those item codes are  
> returned inside of the <string> … </string> tags you showed earlier,  
> XML-RPC is just giving you what the XML said it received, a String.
>
> James Edward Gray II

No, forgive me for the sort of vague question. The Web Service  
provider made me sign a contract not to blah, blah, blah... so I felt  
I should obfuscate a certain amount of this XML response. This is the  
actual XML with the service provider and member names changed to  
protect the guilty. Again, when the string is returned, punching it  
into XmlSimple allows me access to each member of the image  
collection. However, it would be simpler to stay with one library if  
possible.

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
   <param>
     <value>
       <string>
         <theWSResponse sessionid="02632086050044137264314155577353"  
membername="my_member_name">
           <imageList>
             <image fileid="3782426" type="Image" title="Wide Angle of  
777 Building""/>
             <image fileid="3782472" type="Image" title="Buoys for  
Lobster Pots, Bar Harbor, Maine"/>
             <image fileid="3782503" type="Image" title="Ornate Clock  
in Grand Central Station"/>
           </imageList>
       </theWSResponse>
     </string>
   </param>
</methodResponse>

By the way, is there a better way to get this raw data than in ruby- 
debug?

Thanks again,

--s