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Subject: RE: WfMC TC mail list and WfXML feedback.
I got
this question from a Chi-Tsai Yang at Flowring, one of the companies who has
volunteered to participate in the ASAP/Wf-XML demonstration planned for the
Spring. He asks a good question: what should happen if you do an HTTP GET
to the URL of a resource. My current implementation gives a explanatory
page, but I am somewhat unhappy with that. Whatever is decided should be
the same for ASAP and Wf-XML so I copied both groups.
The
resource is a resource after all. The best representation of it is what is
returned by a GetProperties request: it returns the properties of the
resource. I believe that an HTTP GET to the URL should return the same XML
structure. This would make it considerably easier to configure a service
to use a resource because while the XML display in IE is crude, it does display
the data in a way that a user can read things. Every implementation must
have way to generate a GetProperties response, so this is no additional
work.
While
XML is not as friendly as HTML, a style sheet could be used in conjunction
with the XML to make a nicely formatted HTML page. I believe this is
secondary in importance. The HTML representation of a resource is less
useful because will not be a standardized, and different engines will do it
differently. Supplying XML and allowing the user to style it would yeild a
consistent HTML for a given user at least across all
implementations.
What
do TC members think about this?
-Keith
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