Re: Service description value for hypermedia?

On 17 Jun 2005, at 14:06, Mark Baker wrote:
>
>> Actually, I thought you meant that people would generally create such
>> libraries for each *MIME type* (or schema),
>
> Yes, that's what I meant, a library per media type, not one for each
> eBay or Google service.  This would mean that for a very general media
> type like Atom, that most developers should be content to have a URI,
> HTTP, and Atom library in hand.  Having more specific, possibly
> per-service libraries on top (even code-generated ones) may have some
> value in some cases, but as I mentioned before, I wouldn't want them to
> step on the toes of the URI/HTTP/Atom libs by defining things which
> were already handled in those libs... like operations, for instance.

So would you anticipate one library for the generic XML, XHTML and RDF 
media
types, even thought there may be one of a number of micro-data formats
embedded inside the single returned document?



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