XMLRPC patch for 7.2

23 Feb 2004


      Hello,
I have a patch for Pike 7.2 XMLRPC. The spec at http://www.xml-rpc.org/ 
says the <value> element can contain <string>, <array> and so on but can 
also contain a PCDATA by itself ("If no type is indicated, the type is 
string."). This wasn't set in XMLRPC.pmod and this is used by some 
client like XML-RPC Apache project one.
Here is the patch:
on Feb 23 16:38:40 2004
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
    <!ELEMENT params  (param*)>
    <!ELEMENT param   (value)>
-  <!ELEMENT value   (boolean|i4|int|double|string|base64|
+  <!ELEMENT value   (#PCDATA|boolean|i4|int|double|string|base64|
                       array|struct|dateTime.iso8601)>
<!ELEMENT boolean          (#PCDATA)>
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@
                                // seems to assume localtime).
                                return Calendar.parse("%dT%h:%m:%s", 
data*"") ||
                                  magic_zero;
+                            // the spec says that the default is string 
inside value
+                             default: return data*"";
                            }
                            error("Unknown element %O.\n", name);
                          case "error":
/ David

    