On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
Hi Bob,
On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
How about taking JavaScript names? Neutral enough.
string, number, boolean, date. data doesn't exist in JavaScript,
but that's a damn good name for it because it's the appropriate
URL scheme.
Enough hypotheses, time for hard data. I've gone ahead and created
a page under rest to collect examples:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes#Examples
So far I have XML Schema, plists, C, JSON, and YAML. Hopefully
others can add their favorites, and we can build a consensus...
JSON/JavaScript isn't correct.. object is not for data (it's a
string:value map), boolean is the name of the boolean type (which has
true and false instances) and in JavaScript there is a canonical
datetime representation as Date (but doesn't have a lowercase type
name, it's just an object).
XML-RPC types would probably be good to add also: string, double,
int, boolean, base64, dateTime.iso8601
(too lazy to create a wiki login at the moment)
-bob
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