[occi-wg] Votes: XML vs. JSON vs. TXT

[Tim Bray]

On May 7, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Marc-Elian Begin wrote:

> I'm currently using restlet to build RESTFul web-services (very nice  
> by
> the way) in Java.  In such a framework, generating the requested  
> format
> based on the requests's 'Content-Type' attribute is trivial (as long  
> as
> the transformation is available).  This means that my WS can talk
> (x)html when the user's a human (me), or XML or JSON or plain/text.
>
> So for me multi-format is mandatory...

Could you expand on you you get from "Generating multiple formats is  
easy for me based on my implementation tools" to "multi-format is  
mandatory"?

The intervening steps in the argument are not self-evident.  -T