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  • 1.  XML From External Source

    Posted 08-14-2021 15:51

    College Football season is around the corner, and we are attempting to receive live, updated game scores from other games around the US. We will be getting a XML data feed from Stats Perform (which at one time was called Stats Inc).

    They are offering to send the XML data in a variety of ways. I believe I understand the basic idea that we would need to setup the XML as a datalinq source in order for the Xpression to read it. However, I'm not sure what would be preferred delivery method for the XML for Xpression. The options they provided are: HTTP Get, FTP Pull or FTP Push of the XML files.

    Given we are on a University Campus network, I would think HTTP Get or FTP Pull would make the most sense (and the least network issues). However I am curious if there is a preferred method that would work best for Xpression and Datalinq.

    Any help or guidance you might be able to give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!



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    Kurt
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  • 2.  RE: XML From External Source

    Posted 08-15-2021 23:39
    Based on my experience with their Soccer feeds, STATS Perform has a URL that you can try pulling with the RSS datalinq option. The only caveat I remember when setting it up though is that in the URL, you will need to add your login credentials (provided by STATS Perform) into the URL.

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    Drew Shealy
    XPression Designer & Programmer
    SoFi Stadium
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  • 3.  RE: XML From External Source

    Posted 08-17-2021 22:23
    Hey Kurt

    I provide stats graphics for the Canadian Football league, using a live data feed from STATS. We built an XML parser app that polls the STATS' "Boxscore" file that contains the most relevant data for our games. Our parser polls the file for updates about every 5 seconds, then when we see something interesting we can save the snippet as a very small XML file that is setup in Datalinq for that purpose. We have several "snippet templates" setup in Dataling (end-quarter summaries, head to head comparisons, scoring drives, etc etc). Datalinq is a pretty powerful utility that we rely on heavily. Cheers, Andy

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    Andrew Allan
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