[occi-wg] Is OCCI the HTTP of Cloud Computing?

[Alexis Richardson]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Richard Davies
<richard.davies at elastichosts.com> wrote:
>
> As you're well aware, we're less in favour of XML. However support for
> alternative formats with automatic cross-conversion makes all the versions
> equivalently first-class citizens, which is good enough for us.
>
> The XSLT convertors start with XML and convert to the other formats.
> In practice, ElasticHosts will likely start with TXT, and convert from there
> to the JSON, XML, etc - it would be great to see automatic convertors in
> this opposite direction too, to validate that it can be done. Writing these
> will also impose discipline

This is a great point - cross format converters will make it easier to
spot bugs.

alexis