Amazon Web Services Developer Forum:

11/8/03 - 11/14/03

Topics of Note

• All Amazon Browse Nodes 11/10
• Google and XSLT 11/10
• AWS and Sporting Goods 11/11
• New Heavy Data Fields 11/13
• Amazon Chat Transcript 11/13

All Amazon Browse Nodes

The discussion about All Amazon Browse Nodes continues if you're interested in the latest developments.

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Google and XSLT

worrelli wonders why Google isn't indexing his XSLT generated pages. Various people offered their opinion on why.

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AWS and Sporting Goods

md80302 wondered if he'd missed the information later in the week on sporting goods (mentioned in an AWS chat). No one answered that question, but someone had a hack for sporting goods. Stay tuned.

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New Heavy Data Fields

Jeff at Amazon.com announced some great news about new data fields that would be available in an heavy XML request. Some of the new fields include number of pages, number of issues for magazines, number of media items for CDs, Dewey decimal for books, running time for movies, subscription length for magazines, and reading level. Vicente sways the thread a little, but it's still a good read, and good news.

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Amazon Chat Transcript

The latest Amazon Chat Transcript was posted on the 13th. Pete talked about using cached results when AWS was down or not responding. Amazon Web Services team asked him to keep everyone updated.

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