Successful parsing !

Between yesterday and today, we successfully managed to parse the Amazon XML response ! This is a great leap forward as it means the Inventory capture ins’t far ahead, and the same goes for price capturing and getting reviews and comments for DVDs, CDs and Video Games. The problem came from the confusion made by the response being considered sometimes as an array, sometimes as an object.

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2 Responses to “Successful parsing !”

  • Bjorn Says:
    September 18th, 2005 at 2:51 pm

    I don’t understand why you switched from XSLT to server side parsing on our end.
    Are you planning to stick the “inventory” info in our DB rather than getting it on the fly based on ASINs?

  • Administrator Says:
    September 19th, 2005 at 1:52 am

    Parsing allows for flexible arrangement of data, depending on circumstances (DVD, CD, Game). XSLT allows for one arrangement of data. For many different kinds of arrangements, one would need many stylesheets, or the ability to generate XSLT stylesheets on-the-fly, which I’m not quite sure is doable.

    This way, once parsed, the server only takes relevant information, like price, ASIN, Title or whatever.

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