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Created April 27, 2013 17:45
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Why wont Alfred accept this xml?
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import json
import urllib2
url="http://data.mtgox.com/api/2/BTCUSD/money/ticker"
jsonURL=urllib2.urlopen(url)
jsonObject=json.load(jsonURL)
currentValue = jsonObject['data']['high']['display']
# for some reason arg="+currentValue" doesn't work, but ..<subtitle>"+currentValue+"</subtitle> does
print ("<items><item uid='currentPrice' arg='+currentPrice+' valid='yes'><title>MtGox Current Price</title><subtitle>"+ currentValue +"</subtitle><icon>MtGox.png</icon></item></items>" ).encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
# if I change arg='+currentPrice+' to arg='42' then the workflow works perfectly.
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spuder commented Apr 27, 2013

Fixed. Thanks to the comment on this forum.
arg='+currentPrice+' should be arg='"+currentPrice+"'

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2232-workflow-xml-does-not-accept-arg/#entry12531

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