[alicebot-archcomm] Jon. You are definitely on track with XML and XSLT; what about PREDICATES?

[Jonathan Roewen]

> Jon,
>
>  From what I can see, you are almost there.
>
> Your Amazon.com demo was *very cool*, indeed!
>
> How would you get simple data back from a fetch service (like a date) and
> store it in a PREDICATE?

Wrap it in <set/> of course. Since for your service, you can format the date
in a mask, and then store the result in a predicate such as <set
name="date"><fetch>....</fetch></set> assuming that it ever becomes
standardised. While the functionality is nifty, do remember that we have a
long way to go in terms of whether people think it's a good idea, the kind
of things it should be able to do, things it shouldn't need to be able to
do, and things it possibly shouldn't do.

Jon