[microformats-discuss] STRUM: Scripts, REST & Microformats

[Mark Baker]

Hey Ernie, thanks for CCing me.

I have similar concerns to Danny's, most importantly getting some more
detail, preferably in example-form.

The label "XHTML-RPC" also caught my eye, though I don't see anything
which suggests RPC is happening.

Cheers,

Mark.

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:52:57AM +0200, Danny Ayers wrote:
> On 10/7/05, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've had a very interesting week here at Web 2.0.   Last night at
> > the Microformats BOF I introduced a new technology I call STRUM:
> >
> > http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/C395201355/E20051006235324/index.html
> 
> Looks very interesting, but it really does need the presenter along
> with the slides ;-)
> 
> I love: "The 0.8% solution for ad hoc web services."
> 
> What would be very helpful with grokking the idea would be examples of
> the kind of messages that go over the wire. Something like the
> descriptions MarkP uses here:
> 
> http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2003/10/15/dive.html
> 
> (note the Atom API 2003 bears little relation to the Atom Publishing
> Protocol 2005)
> 
> One thing that looked potentially worrying was:
> 
> http[s]://host/.STRUM/com.resolver.uri/name
> 
> Is that a "well-known location"? (I had a quick search for the TAG
> issue, where TimBL mentions this sort of thing breaking the Web, but I
> gave up when I found:
> http://adactio.com/extras/talklikeapirate/translate.php?filename=http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist
> )
> 
> Another thing that isn't clear - how are HTTP methods other than GET &
> POST handled?
> 
> Cheers,
> Danny.
> 
> --
> 
> http://dannyayers.com

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