Re: Social API: Scope

To be honest, I've yet to see a reasonable use case for an XML AS format.
On Aug 3, 2014 9:53 AM, "Harry Halpin" <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

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> On 08/03/2014 06:02 PM, Erik Wilde wrote:
> > hello james.
> >
> > On 2014-07-31, 10:32 , James M Snell wrote:
> >> FWIW, AS2 does not *re-base* itself on JSON-LD, it aligns with
> >> JSON-LD. It's a critical difference.
> >
> > i think this will get interesting when it comes to defining an
> > extension model. what was great about AS1 was that it had both an
> > XML and a JSON syntax, so it was useful for both communities. once
> > you subscribe to some layer higher than that, it gets a bit
> > trickier to have a well-defined domain-based extension model,
> > without resulting in rather horrible structures in one of the
> > underlying syntaxes.
> >
> > i tried to work on an AS2 XML encoding for a little while
> > (analogous to http://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/), because it
> > might be helpful to also serve the XML/Atom community. but it gets
> > rather tricky to translate AS2's "alignment" with JSON-LD into
> > reasonable XML constructs. that's because as an XML user, you'd
> > like to see XML's/Atom's extension model to be used rather than
> > some more complicated way of folding what's required by JSON-LD
> > into some generic XML mapping.
> >
> > i think it wold be important to discuss whether an XML syntax is a
> > requirement. if it is, my guess is that this will have some
> > implications for how much layered models such as JSON-LD can be
> > used, and where the line has to be drawn to avoid dependencies on
> > their implicit models.
>
> Actually, according to the charter only a JSON-based syntax is a
> requirement. The WG can of course have an XML syntax, but the focus on
> should be on JSON.
>
>    cheers,
>       harry
>
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > dret.
> >
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