Excerpt functionality *is* built in to the xmlrpc in wordpress, you just have to send it the mt_excerpt header, as mentioned on this list previously.
If you edit the blogging.rb file in the blogging bundle support directory (or make a copy in a new bundle) and add:
@post['mt_excerpt'] = @headers['excerpt'] if @headers['excerpt']
around line 224 (it's not especially important, as long as it's in that block) it will send a header in this format:
Excerpt: your text without line breaks
You'll want to edit the language file to include the [Ee]xcerpt header so it highlights properly.
Then you'll want to add
doc += "Excerpt: #{self.post['mt_excerpt']}\n" if self.post ['mt_excerpt'] && (self.post['mt_excerpt'] != '')
at about line 400 in blogging.rb so that it will retrieve the excerpts when you fetch the post or after posting.
That's it. Excerpts should work for you then.
Brett
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