There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my opinion) set the HTTP Accept header to */* or just adopted the string used by the host browser. This made it nigh-on impossible to request, in a RESTful fashion, an XML representation of the resource you wish to edit...
The most interesting development within the XML world of late is AtomPub. It abstracts the details (however simple they may be) of REST and provides them in a well specified protocol. Instead of writing home grown RESTfull web services, merely...
Lambda the Ultimate has a post up on "Why Multi-Core is Easy and Internet is Hard", It hits on some issues and servers, like Rest and Waterken with its capability based system over Rest so for that alone it is...
The reason why I think data that should be freely available is the largest set of
Government data is that many of the forms of this data can bind to everything, for
example location data is often held by the government and just about everything real has
location. Time data is often held by government archives, and the data goes back lots
longer than the data that must be maintained secretly.
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