- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:30:42 -0700
- To: Leigh.Klotz@Xerox.com
- Cc: public-forms@w3.org
Also, in making things restful --- xml may not be the best possible serialization of data -- given that the tag verbosity will get us to the url-length limit quicker. JSON?:-) Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. writes: > With submission/resource/@value we can control the URI of submissions > and enable REST architectural style operations on resources named by URIs. > > It's not very pretty, though, and form authors tend to use the default > GET serialization of leaf nodes into query strings; then when a REST > design would have them to POST or PUT, things get uglier again. > > It might be nice if XForms 1.2 could use a template to serialize some > nodes into the resource. > > Joe Gregorio has an (expired) RFC on URI templates, and here are some > pages about it: > http://bitworking.org/news/URI_Templates > http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/03/about-uri-templates/ > http://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/ > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-03 > WADL uses the concept, as do some other REST systems (such as RESTLET). > > Also, I believe Philip Fennel has been using matrix recently, and > perhaps this is another serialization we can use for the resource data. > > http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/12/the_matrix_revisited.html > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html > > Leigh. > -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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