On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Richard Davies <richard@daviesmail.org>wrote:
* AtomPub: Atom meets REST or "a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources"
I do feel that this is the combination of a meta-model (AtomPub, decision 3) and a syntax (XML, decision 4), which are logically independent, as evidenced by the existence of both GData-JSON (same meta-model, different syntax) and POX (same syntax, different meta-model).
Good/interesting observation. Remember there's been talk<http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/15/application-atom-json>about application/atom+json and the suggestion<http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/15/application-atom-json#c1169312821>to create an IETF Internet Draft about it.
* JSON: JavaScript Object Notation or "a lightweight computer data interchange format"
So I would equally recommend that we distinguish GData-JSON from POJSON, where POJSON is a direct rendering of nouns, verbs and attributes, by analogy to POX.
I thought this was implicit, but let's call them POJ and POX. While both have useful applications (thinking web development) neither would be a particularly good primary format... before you know it you'll have stuff like ETags, Content Types, Links, Categories and a bunch of other stuff that will make you wish you'd just let someone else do the dirty work. Sam