On Monday 11 February 2002 21:51, you wrote:
> getFile(), getName(), getArticle(), getStockQuote() were what we had
> *before* the Web. I can't see any reason to go back after seeing
> what can be achieved with GET.
Thinking on different scales. An object-oriented distributed hypermedia
system would have getName() et al depending on the precise class of object
involved - and a standard interface, getUserView(), that returns HTML or
whatever.
With the Web, we got the HTML-retrieval part and now we have to do all this
XML mess to get back to getName() and friends (computer-accessible
interfaces...)
ABS
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