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With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database
- vicaya 17y agouggh, yet another xml api. Either use JSON or something like Thrift or ProtoBuf.
- IsaacSchlueter 17y agoLook closer. YQL can output results in either JSON or XML. It just uses XML for table definitions, and as one of several ways to extract data from web services.
- sh1mmer 17y agoAlso does JSONP for use in the front-end. It would be nice, vicaya, if you fact checked before throwing stones.
- vicaya 17y agoOne needs to deal with large amount of XML for non-pre-canned query. That's a fact.
- vicaya 17y agoWell, majority of the meat/bindings/scripts etc is written in XML. If you want to use something other than prewritten samples, you'll have to deal with XML. Period.
- IsaacSchlueter 17y agoSo you would not want to use any service that uses XML for any purpose, even if it could output its results in JSON? That seems irrational.
- TweedHeads 17y agoHmm, interesting... Papers for Web Query Language on Google http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~websql/www-conf/wsql/PAPER267.html http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~websql/www-conf/wsql/PAPER267.htm... http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/wql.html http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/wql.html
- tectonic 17y agoVery cool. How do you think this compares to http://parselets.com http://parselets.com?