Brent points to the as-yet undocumented CoreFoundation XMLRPC header files and writes a sample app.
What does this mean? It’s now a lot simpler–in fact, it’s baked into the OS–for both Carbon and Cocoa programmers to make XML-RPC (and, one assumes, SOAP) calls. Before you could do this easily in AppleScript, leading to funny applications being released that were mostly Cocoa except for one AppleScript routine that was invoked by sending a Cocoa message to a hidden button…
Maybe I’ll play with this a little next week. First I have to live up to a promise I made to get OmniOutliner2OPML to actually produce parseable OPML files. Boy, for a hack written in one morning, that’s expecting a lot. 🙂
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