Network Working Group E. Wilde Internet-Draft June 27, 2016 Intended status: Informational Expires: December 29, 2016 Home Documents for HTTP APIs: XML Syntax draft-wilde-home-xml-04 Abstract The specification for HTTP API Home Documents provides a JSON syntax only. This specification provides an XML syntax for the same data model, so that the concept of Home Documents can be consistently exposed in both JSON- and XML-based HTTP APIs. It also defines the link relation type "home" so that applications can identify links to home documents. Note to Readers Please discuss this draft on the apps-discuss mailing list (). Online access to all versions and files is available on GitHub (). Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. 1. Introduction "Home Documents for HTTP APIs" [I-D.nottingham-json-home] proposes the concept of "Home Documents" and describes them as follows: "This document proposes a 'home document' format for non-browser HTTP clients. [...] The goal of home documents is to serve as a starting point for hypermedia APIs, where clients need to have an entry point, and then can use the API by following links. Home documents thus serve the same purpose as home pages on web sites: They are stable entry points that provide starting points for clients with some knowledge of the services linked from them." While this general concept of a home document is independent of the representation format, the specification only defines a JSON syntax. In order to make this concept available across representations, this specification defines an XML syntax for the concepts defined in [I-D.nottingham-json-home]. One notable difference is the handling of links found in "href" or "href-template" attributes of "resource" elements: In the JSON syntax, these are (if they are relative URIs) resolved against the URI of the home document itself. The XML syntax adds support for an optional "xml:base" attribute [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20090128] on the "resources" document element. If this attribute is present, it has to be used according to its specification, and thus becomes part of a possible resolution chain of relative URIs. 2. XML Example The following Home Document in XML syntax uses the same data as the Home Document shown in Section 2 [1] of [I-D.nottingham-json-home] (but adding xml:base="http://example.com" to demonstrate the mechanism): Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 GET PUT DELETE PATCH application/json-patch+json application/xml bytes The mapping between JSON arrays and XML uses "item" elements , where each of those elements represents one array item. For properties that have a single values (i.e., they are not defined as an array of values), this value is directly contained as content in the corresponding element. Currently, the draft does not specify an extension model (how to represents hints that are not specified in the draft itself), and therefore the extension model for XML is currently undefined as well. The XML syntax will be updated to reflect the extension model once it has been specified for the JSON syntax. Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 3. XML Schema The following XML Schema is describing the XML shown in Section 2. Since there currently is no extension model, the XML Schema does currently not contain any extension points. Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 4. IANA Considerations This specification registers a media type and an XML namespace URI for the XML syntax of Home Documents (as defined in [I-D.nottingham-json-home]). 4.1. Media Type application/home+xml The Internet media type [RFC6838] for a Home Document in XML syntax is application/home+xml. Type name: application Subtype name: home+xml Required parameters: none Optional parameters: Same as charset parameter for the media type "application/xml" as specified in RFC 3023 [RFC3023]. Encoding considerations: Same as encoding considerations of media type "application/xml" as specified in RFC 3023 [RFC3023]. Security considerations: This media type has all of the security considerations described in RFC 3023 [RFC3023] and [I-D.nottingham-json-home]. Interoperability considerations: N/A Published specification: RFC XXXX Applications that use this media type: Applications that publish Home Documents for HTTP services using XML syntax. Additional information: Magic number(s): N/A File extension(s): XML documents should use ".xml" as the file extension. Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 Macintosh file type code(s): TEXT Person & email address to contact for further information: Erik Wilde Intended usage: COMMON Restrictions on usage: none Author: Erik Wilde Change controller: IETF 4.2. XML Namespace Registration This document registers the following XML namespaces in the IETF XML registry defined in [RFC3688]. URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:homedoc Registrant: The IESG. XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace defined by an RFC. 4.3. Link Relation Type The link relation type below has been registered by IANA per Section 6.2.1 of RFC 5988 [RFC5988]: 4.3.1. Link Relation Type: home Relation Name: home Description: Identifies a resource that provides a "home" document for the context resource. Home documents often serve as starting points for a certain resource context, such as for Web APIs where the home resource provides access to a number of "entry points" to the Web API. Reference: RFC XXXX 5. Implementation Status Note to RFC Editor: Please remove this section before publication. This section records the status of known implementations of the protocol defined by this specification at the time of posting of this Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal described in RFC 6982 Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 [RFC6982]. The description of implementations in this section is intended to assist the IETF in its decision processes in progressing drafts to RFCs. Please note that the listing of any individual implementation here does not imply endorsement by the IETF. Furthermore, no effort has been spent to verify the information presented here that was supplied by IETF contributors. This is not intended as, and must not be construed to be, a catalog of available implementations or their features. Readers are advised to note that other implementations may exist. According to RFC 6982, "this will allow reviewers and working groups to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature. It is up to the individual working groups to use this information as they see fit". For a list of implementations, please refer to the wiki that tracks implementations for the Home Document specification in general: 6. Security Considerations The general security considerations for XML home documents are the same as those for JSON home documents, as described in the "Security Considerations" of [I-D.nottingham-json-home]. The specific security considerations introduced by XML as a representation format are described in the "Security Considerations" of [RFC3023]. 7. Open Issues o The move from a predefined list of hints to a hint registry is not yet reflected in the XML; in particular because the draft defines the hint data model to be JSON-specific. o What is the extension model for the XML syntax? Should processing of other namespaces be defined as "should ignore", so that same- namespace extensions are encouraged? o Should the XML syntax provide support for embedded human-readable documentation? This would probably not be supported in the JSON syntax, but could be marked as strictly optional and XML-specific. Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 8. References 8.1. Normative References [I-D.nottingham-json-home] Nottingham, M., "Home Documents for HTTP APIs", draft- nottingham-json-home-04 (work in progress), May 2016. [RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types", RFC 3023, January 2001. [RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004, . [RFC5988] Nottingham, M., "Web Linking", RFC 5988, October 2010. [RFC6838] Freed, N., Klensin, J., and T. Hansen, "Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 6838, January 2013. [W3C.REC-xml-20081126] Sperberg-McQueen, C., Yergeau, F., Paoli, J., Maler, E., and T. Bray, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC- xml-20081126, November 2008, . [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20090128] Marsh, J. and R. Tobin, "XML Base (Second Edition)", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xmlbase-20090128, January 2009, . 8.2. Informative References [W3C.REC-xslt-19991116] Clark, J., "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xslt-19991116, November 1999, . [W3C.REC-xml-stylesheet-20101028] Pieters, S., Clark, J., and H. Thompson, "Associating Style Sheets with XML documents 1.0 (Second Edition)", World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xml- stylesheet-20101028, October 2010, . Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Home Documents XML June 2016 [RFC6982] Sheffer, Y. and A. Farrel, "Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section", RFC 6982, July 2013. 8.3. URIs [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-json-home- 04#section-2 Appendix A. XML-to-HTML for Home Documents The following XSLT 1.0 stylesheet [W3C.REC-xslt-19991116] transforms XML Home Documents to very simple HTML renditions. By associating this stylesheet [W3C.REC-xml-stylesheet-20101028] with an XML Home Document, it is possible to serve XML Home Documents that will be rendered in a human-friendly way when viewed in a browser. Home Document

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Author's Address Erik Wilde Email: erik.wilde@dret.net URI: http://dret.net/netdret/ Wilde Expires December 29, 2016 [Page 12]