FPWD: Content Negotiation by Profile

Content Negotiation by Profile

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-dx-prof-conneg-20181218/

Abstract

This document describes how Internet clients may negotiate for content provided by servers according to profiles. This is distinct from negotiating by Media Type or Language: the profile is expected to specify the content of information returned, which may be a subset of the information the responding server has about the requested resource, and may be structured in a specific way to meet interoperability requirements of a community of practice.

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This document was published by the Dataset Exchange Working Group as a First Public Working Draft. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation.

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This document is governed by the 1 February 2018 W3C Process Document.
 

Overview of DXWG documents on profiles 

This document is part of a set of documents on profiles, edited by the W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group (DXWG). Some of the documents are general while some are technology-specific: 
 
  * [PROF-GUIDANCE] the top-level general profiling guidance document giving an overview of all other documents 
  * [PROF-ONT] a document describing a formal ontology for describing objects related to profiles 
  * [PROF-CONNEG] this document, including specific guidance on how to negotiate for Internet resource content using profiles 
  * [PROF-IETF] an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft defining two Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Headers for HTTP content negotiation by profile

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