- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:40:37 +0100
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- CC: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>, public-html-xml@w3.org
On 31.12.2010 14:17, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> What's essential is that payloads are self-describing, and media types that >> support compound information (for instance, through XML namespaces), are >> completely OK. > > We're not talking about random media types, but text/html > specifically. Hypermedia formats have a special place within REST > architecture: > > http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven > > Sprinkingly some namespaces around does not magically produce a > document that software can turn into a human-friendly hypermedia > interface. > ... It may or may not. How is this in any way different from using Microdata, RDFa, script elements or data-* attributes, though? After all, it's just a different way of embedding the information. Best regards, Julian
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