Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

null/nil value

Author:Hannes Wallnöfer
Posted:2/13/1999; 6:07:30 AM
Topic:How is <value></value> to be interpreted?
Msg #:2876 (In response to 2874)
Prev/Next:2875 / 2877

If it's supposed to be returning an empty string, I think you have a bug in nirvana's server.

is an empty string because the default type for values is string.

However, I think this example shows that a null/nil value would make sense in XML-RPC. At least it would make a lot of sense on my side (Java). Passing an empty string (or an empty struct or array) is not a very good way to express that the object does not exist.

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