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Kumo weblog has several pointers and discussion of the URL as the API for the Web.
There’s a proposal for an expanded, common XML-RPC API for weblogs that supports more than the requirements for Blogger and Manila sites. It includes methods for managing posts, categorization, user authentication, and comments.
iBlog hooks up with Blogger through the native XML-RPC services in Mac OS.
While the example is .NET specific, there are some ideas on how to maintain state in web services that apply to other platforms.
My article on building web services using XML, PHP and FileMaker Pro is now on XML.com. I recently started at Apple and my manager encouraged me to learn FileMaker since it’s our sister company, and we have many internal databases in FMPro. I was reading documentation in FileMaker’s site and found out it can return [...]
Another AppleScript web services application. Jarrett House North’s script will post text from TextEdit to a Manila weblog.
It seems that everyone’s building apps off of the web services hooks in the AppleScript shipping with Mac OS X.1. A script from WebEntourage will post any selected text to a Blogger based weblog.
Aaron of Aaronland just published a Perl module for sending the update ping to Weblogs.com.
[ via Scripting News ] Dave found the documentation before I did. But Apple Developer Connection has the goods on using XML-RPC and SOAP from AppleScript.
If you run the PHP implementation of XML-RPC from Sourceforge, please update to 1.01 due to a security issue.
This has been covered elsewhere, but Evan’s written an XML-RPC interface to post to Blogger.
Simon St.Laurent, Joe Johnston & Edd Dumbill’s book on XML-RPC ships.