The many advantages that Google’s Apps Script provides to light weight application developers have kept the Apps Script popular today. Drawing its foundation from JavaScript 1.8,
Google Apps is cloud based, easy to learn and use to create useful tools for system administration, creation as well as display of different elements of a user interface, etc. As Google describes it, the apps script has been designed to provide easy means and methods to make automatic, various tasks across all of Google’s products, and services as well as the third party services.
The features of the new Apps script
Keeping in line with the same principle, Google has introduced some changes in the XML format it uses in its Apps Script and introduced a new XML service. The decision to roll out this new Extensible Markup Language service came with the realization that XML still continues to be the preferred format for many developers using Apps Script.
The search engine giant acknowledges that even though a number of developers now prefer using the JavaScript Object Notation as a shorter, minimum overhead alternative to Extensible Markup Language, the good old XML still enjoys a considerably big fan base due to its emphasis on clearness, generality, and usability on the internet.
The current XML service on AppScript, though very efficient in parsing XML, only had limited resourcefulness when it came to creating or making changes in existing documents. To cater to this shortcoming, Google rolled out the new Extensible Markup Language service, program. Note that the term is XML Service and not just XML, as it previously used to be. The new service has been designed to provide programmers increased consistency and a more complete and enriching experience.
When compared to the old XML on Apps Script, the new XML service will provide users with the following benefits:
- Increased control over XML string formatting
- Facility of altering XML content which has been parsed
- Facility of saving the altered content to a string
- Increased and improved access to XML document entities like comments, CDATA sections among others.
Along with the launch of this new service, Google has sacked some of the older XML tools like the JavaScript feature, the SOAP service to name a few. Though calls to these services will not stop working till the February of next year, programmers are advised to change their codes to the newer service for improved long haul support.
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