[microformats-discuss] STRUM, REST, and DETH

Tue Oct 11 16:33:53 PDT 2005

Hi all,
On Oct 11, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> I've stripped the idea down further to something I call DETH: like 
> REST, but more so. :-)
>> 	DETH = Dictionaries Encoding/Transmitting HTML.

I've created a more robust example, including a hypothetical mapping 
onto Python dictionaries:
http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/deth_example2.html
The idea is that as a client I could do something like:
=====
import deth
dict=deth.getDict("http://somesite.com/users/")
dict["firstname"]="Ernie"
dict["lastname"]="Prabhakar"
nextDict=deth.postDict(dict, "http://somesite.com/users/")
=====
And hopefully something just as simple on the server. It would be 
nice to have a cgi or something that would turn the url-encoded key- 
value pairs into a XOXO 'dl' entry, and simply pass that XHTML 
document over stdin. My server could then just do:
=====
import deth
import sys
doc=""
for line in sys.stdin:
 doc=doc+line
 if "</html>" in line:
 dict=deth.HTMLtoDict(doc)
 result=processDict(dict) # whatever
 outDoc=deth.dicttoHTML(result)
 sys.stdout.write(outDoc)
 doc=""
=====
Does that perhaps make more sense?
-- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
Probe-Hacker blog: http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/