[occi-wg] Simple JSON rendering for OCCI

[Edmonds, AndrewX]

I'd (again) agree with this and would re-iterate Alexander's (Papaspyrou) earlier point on approach and process:

"The canonical way to cope with this issue [formats] (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."

It would also seem to me that although we have the noun-verb-attribute reasoning it might need to be expressed in an easier form to communicate, say graphically.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:occi-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Roger Menday
Sent: 12 May 2009 11:43
To: Richard Davies
Cc: occi-wg at ogf.org
Subject: Re: [occi-wg] Simple JSON rendering for OCCI



On 12 May 2009, at 11:20, Richard Davies wrote:

>> Therein lies the problem - there are no "standard tools" nor any
>> way to
>> specify a cross-platform mechanical transform for JSON (at least
>> not yet).
>
> Yes, I agree with you there - if we're going with multiple formats
> it'll be
> easier to define XML -> JSON than JSON -> XML.

Hi Richard,

Rather than transforming across the actual formats, there seems to be
a interest in defining a model and then describe how to render onto
various data formats. So, rendering-down, rather then transforming-
across. (?)

The data formats discussion is a tricky one to resolve, as there's
things to like in each of JSON, ATOM and key-value. That said, the
"compliant, but non-interoperable implementations through supporting
multiple representations" is a strong argument for a single format.
Whatever that may be ...

regards
Roger

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