RE: Internet draft submission: draft-walsh-tobin-hrri-00

> Why don't we talk about percent-encoding percents?

Because we don't encode them :-)

Percent signs in an HRRI are supposed to be escapes that the user has
put it.  So you can write "http://example.com/foo bar" or
"http://example.com/foo%20bar".

> Is "ab%d" an invalid HHRI?

Yes.

The existing specs agree with this; they don't list % as one the characters
to be escaped by the implementation.  For example:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-external-ent

-- Richard

Received on Friday, 27 April 2007 11:48:53 UTC