# What is this? (softworks-workforce) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-softworks-workforce/573223 "2011-03-02T16:21:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-softworks-workforce/573223/1 "2011-03-02T16:21:43Z")
Okay, I was searching for something I’d written a while ago and I came across [this website](http://www.softworks-workforce.com/apixml/attendance.xml), which appears to have it. I think this is posting what I wrote on a yahoo answers page, but I can’t seem to figure out what this website is or the purpose of it. Any clue? ---
**Author:** ![Hennessy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hennessy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hennessy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-softworks-workforce/573223/2 "2011-03-04T12:05:03Z")
I honestly don’t know but I believe this website tells you [http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/](http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/) ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-softworks-workforce/573223/3 "2011-03-04T14:15:56Z")
Looks like the results of a web service call or a dump from a database. The format is XML, a common format that software uses to “talk” to other software. Looks to me like you stumbled upon the guts of a website that is either open to the public, or someone made a copy of and posted for their own use.