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

[Sam Johnston]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Richard Davies <
richard.davies at elastichosts.com> wrote:

> > > 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.
>
> Definitely.
>
> And they'll impose discipline in data structures too, as I said. We firmly
> believe that the entire core API can and should be written as simple
> key-value pairs in the text format (see my last post where I improved Sam's
> example by converting it to these).
>
> In the simpler formats (TXT, JSON), it's easier to spot when the data
> structures are running away, whereas in the XML it's easy to make a mistake
> which adds another 4 levels of data structure nesting, sometimes even
> without realising it!
>

Agreed, but bear in mind that a key motivator for choosing XML as the source
format is that it's trivial to convert it into anything from plain text to
json to ODF/PDF etc.

Sam
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