A simpler Web service response format

I was evaluating what would be needed in order to expose my RELAX NG  
Validation Service and the upcoming (X)HTML5 Conformance Checking  
service as Web services.

I had a look at the SOAP and Unicorn response formats for the W3C  
Validator in case I could reuse one of them. They both seemed  
unnecessarily complex. Also, generating the formats requires buffering.

I wrote up a quick format draft, which I may implement in the future:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator-ws-ideas/#xml

I'd appreciate comment on the design of my draft format. Also, I am  
curious whether there is (outside the context of Unicorn) interest or  
need for making different validators and checkers to use a common  
report format.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:01:57 UTC