All I have to say is, David, great to have you here. I couldn't have said what you said any better.
Thanks, Tantek On 11/15/05 12:38 PM, "David Heinemeier Hansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Shouldn't we first __agree on URI structure and XML formats__ to >> transmit >> and then discuss how it is implemented in Ruby, Python, Java, ... > > I don't believe in trying to pick the abstraction before the > implementation. We need to get a feel for what works by actually > doing it. Just by looking at the URL scheme that Donald proposed, I > would probably have nodded my head and thought: Great! Actually > trying to implement it made me realize some of the issues. > >> Sidenote: We have still XSLT on our tool stack to do some work, so we >> could e.g. return plain xml but with an XSLT attached to render as >> XHTML which in turn is formatted via CSS. > > I definitely don't want to step on any one's toes, but my personal > preference is that XSLT is the spawn of evil :). My brain is simply > incompatible with XSLT and I can't imagine working on any stack that > includes that. But that's of course just me. We might well have > different flavors of doing things where one of them includes XSLT. > -- > David Heinemeier Hansson > http://www.37signals.com -- Basecamp, Backpack, Writeboard, Tada > http://www.loudthinking.com -- Broadcasting Brain > http://www.rubyonrails.com -- Web-application framework > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-rest mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest _______________________________________________ microformats-rest mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest
