• To: John Evdemon <jevdemon@a...>
• Subject: Re: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: RESTTutorial)
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:25:10 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C10531E51F@r...> <3CEA6F8A.19331.E8DBD9@localhost>

John Evdemon wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> 
> Query: there is nothing in the REST architectural style that requires
> the use of XML -can someone clarify this for me?

That's right. What's to clarify? ;) Neither REST nor HTTP have any
preference for media types. HTML and PDF happen to be the most useful
and popular media types for human-readable documents and XML is the most
useful for machine readable ones. REST does prescribe media types that
allow hyperlinks so XML is obviously a natural fit.

 Paul Prescod

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