Representation
XML.com: Web Architecture Review: Representation [Feb. 02, 2004]
Representations of resource states on the Web, as concretized by particular data formats, are meant to be consumed by agents, both human and machine, in a mutually beneficial way. In other words, for any representational system to work, its producers and consumers have to hold in common first and higher-order expectations about their own behavior and about the expectations and behavior of the others.
Representations of resource states on the Web, as concretized by particular data formats, are meant to be consumed by agents, both human and machine, in a mutually beneficial way. In other words, for any representational system to work, its producers and consumers have to hold in common first and higher-order expectations about their own behavior and about the expectations and behavior of the others.