support RESTful Web API+discussion

Not a lot of spec here, but most of the support and plumbing for this exists and works. Recently split off to a branch for lack of complete specifications. On branch json_xml

  --Gerry Gleason.....2013-03-02 12:25:31 +0000

I think we have the core of this API working now, at least in the HTML realm. There is a good bit of work to be done in other formats, but I think we should track those in other tickets, eg, improve JSON rendering