Different representations for the same MIMEType are fine according to
rfc2616 -
" Note: This is not called "format negotiation" because the
alternate representations may be of the same media type, but use
different capabilities of that type, be in different languages,
etc.
"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asseg, Frank [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 03 August 2011 15:03
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [fcrepo-dev] FCREPO-951
>
>
> On 08/03/11 15:51, Chris Wilper wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > The resource denoted by objects/{pid}/datastreams is not an XML file
> > -- it is the more abstract notion of the set of datastreams in the
> > indicated object. In REST, it is fine for a single resource to have
> > multiple representations, one of which is more detailed than the
> > other.
> Is it also ok to have multiple representations of the same mime type
> then? since content negotation should be deciding with which
> representation to answer the request, it should be set in the
> Accept-Header, and this would be application/xml for both.
> That's why i always thought along the lines of one
> representation of
> the resource per mime-type...
>
>
>
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