[uf-rest] Lucene Web Service API: Atom + XOXO?

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Anybody familiar with this? Is the author here?

http://bitworking.org/news/Lucene_Web_Service_API
http://dev.lucene-ws.net/wiki/API

Sounds to me like the first formal use of XOXO in a web services spec.

-- Ernie P.

> Lucene Web Service API
> The Lucene Web Service API is based on the Atom Publishing Protocol.
>
> The core of Lucene Web Service API is primarily based on the Atom  
> Publishing Protocol, with a few extensions. We've added the ability  
> to get and set properties of any index or the service itself. For  
> searching, we've based our implementation on the OpenSearch 1.1  
> protocol. The contents section of an Atom Entry sent to or received  
> from the web service is based on the XOXO Microformat.
> APP, OpenSearch and Microformats. Get used to seeing them; those  
> small pieces loosely joined are the future of web services.