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

[Andre Merzky]

+1

Quoting [Alexander Papaspyrou] (May 07 2009):
> 
> Actually, while following the discussion for a while now, I feel that  
> we have a strawman discussion here.
> 
> In general, I agree to the general consensus that data representation  
> should be simple. Really simple. Nothing is more frustrating than  
> having to implement, maintain, and sell a complex beast to people  
> outside (tm).
> 
> However, we should remember to not mix up model and rendering.
> 
> The question whether to use RESTful services with CSV, WS-Mayhem, or  
> JSON over avian carriers is a question of _rendering_. I second the  
> fact that this is an important issue to decide upon at some point. But  
> unless we have agreed on the _model_, we haven't reached this point  
> IMHO.
> 
> The canonical way to cope with this issue (which, by the way, has  
> proved right many times in the past) in many WGs within OGF is to  
> separate this step not only in design, but also in specification: have  
> an abstract "modeling" part in the spec which clearly defines the  
> semantics the data, and one or more normative renderings for the  
> abstract model.
> 
> Plus, if we manage to agree on a certain data representation until the  
> final draft, we still can take this single consensus and promote it as  
> the _only_ normative rendering.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexander
> 
> Am 07.05.2009 um 18:56 schrieb 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
> >
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