Re: concatenating web services

* Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com> [2003-01-16 14:57-0500]
> 
> >http://example.com/averages?temp=http://example.org/temp/city/Ottawa
> 
> Doesn't this require the "averages" program to know the output format?

...which is where we benefit from shared output formats. XML obviously. 
RDF, less obviously to some. RDF gives you structural similarity across a 
variety of XML-encoded output formats. Instead of needing to know the 
encoding rules used by each service, a generic datamodel-to-encoding 
strategy is used, so that applications share knowledge of the classes/properties 
encoded in the XML, rather than less interesting knowledge of the 
encoding strategies used by each service/site. In that respect, RDF and 
SOAP Encoding are strangely similar...

Dan