Using Perl With WDDX - This Way Out (Page 8 of 8 )
And that's about it for the moment. In this article, I gave you a quick tour of WDDX, an innovative, XML-based technology designed to simplify data exchange over the Web. I showed you how you could use Perl, with its supplementary WDDX component, to serialize and deserialize a variety of different data structures, including scalars, arrays and hashes. Finally, I wrapped thngs up with a real-life demonstration of the power of WDDX, building a client-server application to transmit and retrieve WDDX-encoded information...using two different programming languages.
Needless to say, you've had a busy afternoon. Take some time off, get yourself a cup of coffee, and when you get back, drop by the following links, which have more information on WDDX.
The WDDX Web site, at
http://www.openwddx.org/The WDDX DTD, at
http://www.allaire.com/documents/objects/whitepapers/wddx_dtd.txtPHP's WDDX functions, at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.wddx.phpMoreover.com, which offers free news headlines in WDDX format (non-commercial use only), at
http://www.moreover.com/Until next time...stay healthy!
Note: All examples in this article have been tested on Linux/i586 with Perl 5. Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or support for the source code described in this article. YMMV!
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