Agreement seems to be AtomPub hasn't caught on because of XML. So why is there no standardized JSON variant?
Oct 22, 2013 · 12:21 PM UTC
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@stilkov I respectfully submit that Collection+JSON was designed to fill that slot ;)
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@mamund Understood and appreciated. Still doesn't explain why no-one did it with AtomPub proper and standardized it, does it?
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@stilkov I wish people understood that XML's and JSON's use cases hardly intersect. Good luck marking up documents (mixed content!) in JSON…
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@stilkov because it didn’t deliver any benefit in the XML world, and JSON is about keeping complexity low?
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@assaf I don't agree thousands of specific APIs are less complex
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@stilkov I blame the "#AtomPub? Nein danke" movement ;-) upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped…. On a more serious note, why b/o #XML? [citation needed]
@stilkov JSON is so simple folks didn't see benefit of standardization. Which is really sad since Atompub enables true REST.
@stilkov I think there was a belief REST + common formats will make API developing easy; the answer turned out to be SDKs.