On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Chris Webb <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chris.webb@elastichosts.com">chris.webb@elastichosts.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Sam Johnston &lt;<a href="mailto:samj@samj.net">samj@samj.net</a>&gt; writes:<br>
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</div><div class="im">&gt; Right, obviously at least one format needs to be mandated and that format<br>
&gt; should obviously be as widely supported and easily translated to others as<br>
&gt; possible.<br>
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</div>Nobody will be able to write portable code using the formats you don&#39;t<br>
mandate. That&#39;s unfortunate if the only mandated rendering forces you to<br>
pull in tens of thousands of lines of library code...</blockquote></div><br>Nobody&#39;s forcing you to pull in any more code for one rendering than another - the Google GData clients have code for working with all of their 16 services and are Apache licensed so you can toss whatever you don&#39;t use. If you don&#39;t like that you can always start from scratch, and you would have to for JSON anyway because we have nothing today and I&#39;m not about to [re]write it.<br>
<br>Let&#39;s not forget that <a href="http://abdera.apache.org/">Apache Abdera</a> provides an open source AtomPub implementation for the server side too.<br><br>Sam<br><br>