Re: KDE + Wikipedia

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>
> > The abiword guys would be interested as well since they have a wikipedia
> > plug in.
> >
> > Strange they wanted a "KDE API" as opposed to "Linux Desktop API"
> > integration.  Maybe it's the same thing if the library is used by
> > everyone and doesn't involve qt.
> >  
> Better have a look at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/KDE_and_Wikipedia
>
> What it says is that Wikipedia will support on their side SOAP/WSDL as 
> the standard to provide their
> web service (as opposed to XML RPC which they are not going to use), 
> and KDE, on their part, will create
> an API so that KDE applications can use instead of having to interface 
> directly with SOAP/WSDL to Wikipedia.
>
> This does not block GNOME at all to create a similar API so that GTK+ 
> applications can use to access Wikipedia content.
> Is there a SOAP/WSDL library for GNOME?
>
> Perhaps libsoup?
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00045.html

Rather,
http://gsoap2.sourceforge.net/

Looks really cool, and it's gSOAP, not kSOAP :)

Simos

> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:26:19AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
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