Choosing a response format

Odata based services can return their data in one of multiple formats.…There are three supported formats but each particular document only supports two.…The root document, which describes the available collections in a service…can be returned either as a plain old .XML or as .JSON.…>> But then, any actual data documents can be…returned either as Atom formatted messages or, again, as JSON.…There are a couple of ways…of requesting JSON formatted messages and I'll show you both.…I'm starting in the root document of the OData…service that's supported by the OData website at services.odata.org.…

The root document, has root element of Service and…it's a member of this XML document's default name space.…That's the name space that's declared without a prefix.…This name space ending with 2007/app,…it has a root element of service, which has a…child element of workspace, and then the workspace has collections.…The title element is a member of another workspace.…The Atom spec.…It uses the Atom prefix, which is connected in this declaration.…