Understanding Check:

If I am correct, for this lab we are supposed to basically extend lab1 with the functionalities listed in the lab spec.  I can see the integration process of this lab will be rather interesting.  I realize that I don’t even have a clear understanding of what we are trying to achieve with our web application.  I can’t remember what was said in class.  I can see the individual tasks that the components that we build (from lab to lab) are trying to accomplish, but I don’t understand what the user wants to be able to get out of our application.  How does an “idea” relate to a domain and name, exactly?  I suppose I can get this brief clarification during class today.

 

Issues I have Identified pertaining to this Lab:

Xml Parsing:

I thought about including some library that would support Xpaths, but I think I’m just going to go about parsing the XML the more clunky way of referring to element indices and names.  I assume that the XML to be used as input will be the output from the server we all built in lab 2.

Getting the POST variables:

Well, apparently you can’t use the cgi.FieldStorage() method when using mod_python.publisher.  I’ll have to find some other way to get around that.