RE: Service description value for hypermedia?

I don't know if it's a bad example... It shows a protocol and format
that relate together, and the possibility for describing the
relationship in machine processable form instead of just human readable
text.  

Cheers,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-web-http-desc-request@w3.org
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> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Marc Hadley
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:57 AM
> To: Mark Baker
> Cc: public-web-http-desc@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Service description value for hypermedia?
> 
> On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Mark Baker wrote:
> >
> > But the code that a human would write to support Atom as a library
> > (e.g. http://www.howdev.com/technologies/), would already provide an
> > API analogous to the one you describe there.
> >
> Indeed, Atom is a bad example since its likely that folks will want
> to write custom libraries for most programming languages to support
> the format and protocol. Is that the case for all web applications
> though...
> 
> Marc.
> 
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> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
> Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
>