Category Archives: General

The other posts in this series of REST design questions has danced around the edge of the content problem dipping in its toes with issues like identification and linking, but now that the design questions are coming to a close, … Continue reading →

Charl van Niekerk has an interesting posting on a topic that should have been be more obvious to me: that the xml:lang attribute (and HTML lang) are critical for making online information accessible to the visually-impaired. Voice synthesizers that read … Continue reading →

My first REST design question is about the fact that RESTafarians seem to consider identification and location to be the same thing, and following from that, the question of how to make identification persistent in XML resources. For example, assume … Continue reading →

[Update: fifth and final question added] I’ve been thinking a bit about REST recently while working on a new data-oriented application. REST in its now-broadened meaning is easy to explain: pieces of data (likely XML-encoded) sit out there on the … Continue reading →

[Updated: see below] Norman Walsh has just posted an unusual essay. The gist of it seems to be that the W3C (at some level) has decided to modify the xml:id specification (released only days ago as a Candidate Recommendation, as … Continue reading →

Anne van Kesteren’s is the first report to reach me that the W3C’s xml:id spec has just moved up the food chain to Candidate Recommendation. I’m usually one of the first people to whine about too many XML-related specs, but … Continue reading →

Networking people love to talk about the network stack, like the 4-layer DoD model or the 7-layer OSI model, and web services boosters have picked up on that with their talk about the web services stack (an example from Judith … Continue reading →

[Update: help is on the way.] If you start with an XML document online (and granted, there are precious few of them), how do you use it to find other XML documents? If they’re XML+XHTML documents, you can follow the … Continue reading →

Welcome to Quoderat, David Megginson’s middle-aged grumblings about technology. My background is largely in XML and the web (I led the development of SAX and spent some time on W3C working groups), so markup, networking, and software development will be … Continue reading →