Non-Apple Sherlock 3 Channels?

AnamanFan queries: "I've been a bit curious about Sherlock 3 and the release of the Sherlock SDK. I wondered if there were any new channels out there, but my Googleing came up dry. There are a few nifty developer-related channels by Apple that feature an XPath Finder, as well as JavaScript, HTML, & XQuery interpreters, but I was wondering if anyone out there has made use of the SDK."

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massinova

[rajiv]

massinova has a sherlock 3 channel. i believe it was the first non-apple sherlock 3 channel. it was created months ago when the first version of the sherlock 3 sdk was posted, before it was pulled. check out the massinova extras.

I've got one

[Victor Ng]

You can find my own Canada411 Sherlock channel with GPL source at:

source:

http://homepage.mac.com/vng1

channel:

sherlock://homepage.mac.com/vng1/Canada411/Sherl oc kChannel.xml?action=add

I highly suggest you go to the Apple Sherlock dev mailing list. You can find it at lists.apple.com

Re:Just a thought... Slashdot channel!

[Steve Cowan]

As much as Slashdock is cool, it doesn't give you the ability to search Slashdot.

Fedex Channel

[coty]

FWIW, I've hacked together a Fedex Channel for Sherlock 3. Even IMO, it pales by comparison to the Watson Packages plug-in. That said, Sherlock has the advantage of being built into MacOS X.

I haven't done any Watson development, yet. (I'd like to give it a shot and compare it with Sherlock 3, when I get the time.) As noted above, Victor Ng has great notes on his experience with the SDK. As Victor notes, the most frustrating bit has to be the complete lack of feedback for even the simplest syntax errors. The developers of Watson have a brief, but informative comparison of the two SDKs, as well.