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Wictor Wilén

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Windows Live Writer 1.0 beta and Metaweblog API

Posted at 2006-09-29 03:11 by Wictor Wilén in Windows Live Writer with 28 comments.

Windows Live Writer has been upgraded and I wrote a post on the Metaweblog standard conformance of WLW in a previously.

The metaWeblog.getCategories I suggested to use to get it to work with Windows Live Writer will now fail since Writer expects that a description is passed in the response.

That is your response has to look like this, watch the lines 18-21 and 32-35.

1 <?xml version="1.0"?> 2 <methodResponse> 3 <params> 4 <param> 5 <value> 6 <array> 7 <data> 8 <value> 9 <struct> 10 <member> 11 <name>categoryid<name> 12 <value>1</value> 13 <member> 14 <member> 15 <name>titlename> 16 <value>Category 1value> 17 <member> 18 <member> 19 <name>descriptionname> 20 <value>Description 1value> 21 <member> 22 </struct> 23 <struct> 24 <member> 25 <name>categoryidname> 26 <value>2</value> 27 <member> 28 <member> 29 <name>titlename> 30 <value>Category 2value> 31 <member> 32 <member> 33 <name>descriptionname> 34 <value>Description 2</value> 35 </member> 36 </struct> 37 </value> 38 </data> 39 </array> 40 </value> 41 </param> 42 </params> 43 </methodResponse>

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#  Annoy by Hans Nordhaug
Screenshot from websnpr Thx for keeping us up to date. Annoyingly it still doesn't work if you don't send the category id. I can't see that this is part of the API... PS! You have some missing less-than tags for you end-tags above.
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