Looks like there is a consensus for not using atom. And I will go with that.<div><br></div><div>Having said that, i must point out the comment made by John Kemp. </div><div>>>>The important thing, regardless of the "format de jour", is the "resource model" that can underpin them all."<<<</div>
<div><br></div><div>I agree with him. This is significant. Any spec dealing with Resources, needs to deal with the resource model, which i think the XRD spec has failed to deal with.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM, John Kemp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@jkemp.net">john@jkemp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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And, why are we having this discussion? This is a frivolous conversation at this point — since ATOM itself is just an XML data format. XRD is just another XML data format designed for a different purpose.<br>
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I mostly agree with this.<br>
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In Liberty ID-WSF we also designed a discovery representation (ID-WSF Discovery Service). A few years ago, I tried putting that in Atom, and it worked just fine, using Atom as an envelope format, but there seemed little point other than that a regular Atom feed-reading Web browser would render the discovery resources somewhat nicely in the browser, which allowed an actual user to be able to browse and use the discovery resources through regular Web means.<br>
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The same could be accomplished by specifying an XSLT transform for XRD documents, and including a link to that in the XRD I guess. You could also choose HTML (with microformats) + CSS for something like that...<br>
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The important thing, regardless of the "format de jour", is the "resource model" that can underpin them all.<br>
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