Ruben Verborgh
Ruben Verborgh
> but aren't the semantics just the (intentional) "side-effect" of the constraints? Might be, but not necessarily. Just knowing that data has a certain shape is already useful. > so...
> that's kind of odd. by definition, syntax is a about structure, so at least for the textbook definitions of these two words it seems odd to separate those two....
> syntax defines structure (that's pretty much all it does), Low-level structure, yes. The fact that keys in a JSON document are strings. I'd say that the fact that JSON...
I guess the only thing I wanted to do was to say that “profiles should not require clients to use a different parser”. So (only) the media type determine the...
Is HAL a profile or a media type? JSON-LD? RDF/XML?
Also, can profiles apply to only a single media type then?
> clearly these are media types, as they define themselves as such. conflicts with > media types are created out of thin air and are self-contained
Okay, then it's clear that we have different starting points. I don't see such transclusion as a technicality: for me, a media type is associated with a parser. So if...
> what's a "parser" for you? Something that processes a representation's stream of bytes into a higher-level model. > you could argue that atom shouldn't be a > media type...
Alright, thanks for the discussion, @dret. I've learned that we indeed have something different in mind. The good thing is that I don't see an incompatibility with the phrasing as...