-----Original Message----- From: kedai [mailto:kdie@kedai.com.my] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 3:56 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] xmlrpc and zope- newbie Q

hi, i spent quite some time going thru userland.com, zope's archive reading stuff about xmlrpc. i see the potential, but can't really grasp how we can achieve that with zope. the announcement http://www.zope.org:12080/archives/Catalog/archives/1999-June/ 005831.html provide a little example, but really, i don't get it. can any guru help explain what and how we can use xmlrpc with zope?

can we use zope as the server? if so, how? and i assume zope can be the client updating other servers to, right? i'm really stuck here.

You can call Zope methods with XML-RPC just like you can 'call' them over the web. For example, in python: [michel@korak python]$ python1.5.2 Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 5 1999, 14:47:37) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux2 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam Py$ import xmlrpclib Py$ x = xmlrpclib.Server('http://www.zope.org/') Py$ x.SiteIndex.news_rss() '<lots of XML content...>' Py$ In this example, http://www.zope.org/ is being used as an XML-RPC server. The method SiteIndex.news_rss() coresponds to the URL http://www.zope.org/SiteIndex/news_rss -Michel