- From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:32:45 -0400
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Stefan Tilkov <stefan.tilkov@innoq.com>, public-web-http-desc@w3.org
On May 26, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > I very much agree that you should be able to plug in any > description of the content you want -- and be able to have multiple > descriptions co-exist. I'm not sure that NRL is necessary, though; > isn't it enough to do something like; > > <web:resource id="foo"> > <web:method name="GET"> > <web:representation media_type="application/xml"> > <web:xml_schema>...</web:xml_schema> > <web:rng>...</web:rng> > <web:owl>...</web:owl> > <web:xpath_name_tuples>...</web:xpath_name_tuples> > </web:representation> > </web:method> > </web:resource> > > ? > > (or put any or ever of the description containers in a separate > namespace) > > After all, you don't need to process the description; it's just > metadata. > I agree, with WADL the wadl:types element can contain any kind of (XML based) description desired. A wadl:representation references the root element of an XML-based representation using the element QName so anything that supports definition of XML elements in a namespace will suffice. NRL would work inside the wadl:types element but it would also be OK to include multiple different description formats of the same thing too. Marc. > > On May 26, 2005, at 12:36 AM, Stefan Tilkov wrote: > > >> >> In a comment to one his weblog postings [1], DaveO pointed me to >> James Clark's NRL [2]. It's probably known to everybody here, but >> in the context of web description formats, maybe using this or >> something similar to decouple the description format from the >> schema language is a good idea. >> >> [1] http://www.pacificspirit.com/blog/2005/05/16/ >> partial_understanding >> [2] http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/nrl.html >> >> Stefan >> >> -- >> Stefan Tilkov, stefan.tilkov@innoq.com, http://www.innoq.com >> innoQ Deutschland GmbH, Halskestr. 17, D-40880 Ratingen, Germany >> Phone: +49 170 471 2624 Fax: +49 2102 77160-1 >> ICQ: 177869128, AIM: stefantilkov, Weblog: http://www.innoq.com/ >> blog/st/ >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > > --- Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com> Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
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