I thought this idea was interesting, and it was a shame that no one else has yet commented on it. It is certainly a very minimal rendering, and is also one which could work.
HTML also resolves another pressing issue - what format to use for submitting key-value pairs (which constitutes a large part of what we need to do with OCCI). It gives us two options:
I certainly agree that simple flat key value pairs are sufficient to represent everything that we need to do - the entire EH API uses nothing else.
* application/x-www-form-encoded which is simple but quickly gets messy with encoding and non-ASCII characters
There is also precedent for sending data in this format - for example the Amazon EC2 Query API and also Google Checkout: http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_HTML_API_Noti... Cheers, Richard.