Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.s3.simpleDb.getOneAttribute

on getOneAttribute (domain, itemName, attName, adrval, adrerrorstring=nil) {
	<<Changes
		<<1/12/08; 9:40:25 AM by DW
			<<Created.
	local (t, xstruct);
	new (tabletype, @t);
	t.DomainName = domain;
	t.ItemName = itemName;
	t.AttributeName = attName;
	if s3.simpleDb.httpClient ("GetAttributes", @t, adrerrorstring, @xstruct) {
		local (adrresponse = xml.getaddress (@xstruct, "GetAttributesResponse"));
		local (adrresult = xml.getaddress (adrresponse, "GetAttributesResult"), adr);
		for adr in adrresult {
			if nameof (adr^) endswith "Attribute" {
				adrval^ = xml.getvalue (adr, "Value");
				return (true)}}};
	return (false)};
bundle { //test code
	local (es, attval);
	if getOneAttribute ("flickrFanData", "Dave Winer", "whenFirstPing", @attval, @es) {
		dialog.alert (attval)}
	else {
		dialog.alert (es)}}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.