I'm sure you have noticed this already: Google did introduce its own generic RESTful API protocol, called "Google data APIs" or short "GData".
<http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html> <http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/protocol.html> It uses HTTP as transport layer and returns query results in standard XML syndication formats (such as Atom and RSS 2.0), which is pretty similar to OpenSearch (they even use some of the OpenSearch elements directly, which is nice). But opposed to OpenSearch, they invent their own query syntax. The API does not only offer to search/retrieve resources (such as SRU/W+CQL) but also to ADD, EDIT or DELETE resources. It also introduces other useful stuff like diagnostics, versioning and authentication. This sounds promising to me, especially since it comes from a big player like Google which should foster its adoption. With the right element extensions, wouldn't this be something to let OOo update remote databases? Or is the lack of RSS 1.0 the deal breaker here? Thanks, Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
