[occi-wg] Simple JSON rendering for OCCI
Tim Bray
Tim.Bray at Sun.COM
Tue May 12 11:00:26 CDT 2009
On May 12, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Alexander Papaspyrou wrote:
> Actually, I still don't see a problem here.
>
> If we have an abstract rendering, which formally specifies the
> semantics of the data, and normative renderings which formally
> define the mapping to concrete formats (JSON, CSV, etc.), then it is
> trivial to put a converter (say, XSLT in the XML case) between them
> to map the data.
That's true in theory. In practice, we observe that agreeing on a
formal model in an interoperable way is immensely more difficult than
interoperating on the actual bits-on-the-wire of a protocol.
Consider, for couple of examples, the Internet and the World Wide
Web. -Tim
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