note 1990 deleted from ref.wddx by nlopess
| From: | nlopess@php.net | Date: | Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:48:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 1990 deleted from ref.wddx by nlopess | ||
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Note Submitter: djm at web dot us dot uu dot net
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The PHP WDDX module encodes all scalars as strings in the XML packet, due to PHP's loose
typing. The current Perl WDDX module takes a different approach, requiring the caller to mark each
variable with a type. This is helpful if the reader of the packet is a more strongly typed language
that distinguishes between string, int, float, and bool; but it's more cumbersome to use than
the PHP approach. The Perl module is hard to find right now; its home page is:
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<a href="http://www.scripted.com/wddx/">http://www.scripted.com/wddx/</a>