rest

Microformats in REST Web Services

Introduction

This the home page for discussion, research, and standards regarding how to optimally use Microformats as the encoding for REST web services.

The goal is for all REST-related information in the microformats world to live under this URL.

Discussions

• uf-rest discussion list on microformats.org
• rest-discuss @ Yahoo Groups

Participants

• Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
• toydi

Examples

• rest/examples

Brainstorming

• rest/brainstorming

Proposals

Note that these are all preliminary.

• [REST-Enabled XHTML] by Dr. Ernie
  • original at rest/rex-proposal
• WebUtopia by Tody

Implementations

Tools

• XOXO parser (python)
  • also xoxo-plist.py, a pyobjc variant support Mac OS X plists]
• ahah.js Asynchronous HTML over HTTP
  • was JAH, an AJAX alternative)

Examples

• DARC: Darwin-Apache-Rails-CoreData
• TurboGear AddressBook (Mac OS X-only)