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"Nestful is a simple Ruby HTTP/REST client with a sane API."

"Should the representation(html, xml, json) returned by a RESTful web service be determined by the url or by the Accept HTTP header?"

"A resource may have more than one representation. There are four frequently used ways of delivering the correct resource representation to consumers:<br />
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Server-driven negotiation. The service provider determines the right representation from prior knowledge of its clients or uses the information provided in HTTP headers like Accept, Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, and User-Agent. The drawback of this approach is that the server may not have the best knowledge about what a client really wants.<br />
Client-driven negotiation. A client initiates a request to a server. The server returns a list of available of representations. The client then selects the representation it wants and sends a second request to the server. The drawback is that a client needs to send two requests.<br />
Proxy-driven negotiation. A client initiates a request to a server through a proxy. The proxy passes the request to the server and obtains a list of representations. The proxy selects one repres…"

"Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web"

"Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into its JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of. There are a few open-source projects that can convert Java objects to JSON. However, most of them require that you place Java annotations in your classes something that you can not do if you do not have access to the source-code. Most also do not fully support the use of Java Generics. Gson considers both of these as very important design goals."

"make jquery queries on xml documents. The API is as much as possible the similar to jquery. pyquery uses lxml for fast xml and html manipulation. This is not (or at least not yet) a library to produce or interact with javascript code. I just liked the jquery API and I missed it in python so I told myself “Hey let’s make jquery in python”. This is the result."

@landlessness Dude, you never told me that WADL is in Detroit! #awesome #tv #xml #collision

for creating RSS feeds in Python

"Try using this url as your fetch page url: http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy?docAddr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rpmchallenge.com&forceXML=on Its basically a service that forces xhtml to pages that aren't exactly well formed. "

"Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. 3000 unit tests. Open source."

"A Fast, Enjoyable HTML Parser for Ruby… a very flexible HTML parser, based on Tanaka Akira’s HTree and John Resig’s jQuery, but with the scanner recoded in C."

"Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: 1) won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away. 2) provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application. 3) automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding."

The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this architecture instead of fighting against it. There are millions of deployed clients, servers and intermediaries that support REST and it makes sense to be compatible with their expectations. This doesn't mean you have to use DELETE and PUT when POST might suffice. It does mean understanding the difference between using POST versus using PUT to other participants in the Web architecture. Specifically, that PUT is idempotent while POST is not so a client of your service can assume that performing the same PUT two or three times in a row has the same effect as doing it once but cannot assume that for POST.

export all of your posts and comments into a single, Atom-formatted XML file for easy backup

hooking Access into the Highrise API

allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers

translators to allow for interoperability between applications based on ODF (OpenDocument) 1.0 standards and Microsoft OpenXML based Office applications.

simple interface for filtering a feed

regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and they get regularly updated as new information becomes

Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats

a cheatsheet for webdev cheatsheets

hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC 2426) properties and values in semantic XHTML.

The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General Public License and will thus prevent many free and open-source software projects from using the for

a pipe that will take all feeds listed in an OPML file, aggregate all of the items therein, and return the results.

XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents

er, future versions of Firefox will remove this quirk, and this kind of behavior is going to be explicitly outlawed by future standards that build on HTML, such as Web Apps 1.0. So we will probably remove this quirk in future versions of WebKit as well. U

Backup your del.icio.us bookmarks with tags and all, including private bookmarks. Authenticated call so it will prompt for username and password. Save XML to file. Note: Google Chrome can't handle this. For shortcuts use https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?tag=system:has:shortcut

This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to Oasis OpenDocument