- From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:03:45 +0100
- To: Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Trevor Perrin said:
> If the appended data doesn't use colons (or requires them to be escaped),
> and the use of "meta" requires that there be an appended data section, is
> it then okay to just do:
>
> meta:http://somesite.com:<Appended_Data_Without_Colons>
Yes, though parsing is a little slower (you need to do it right-to-left).
You could relax the "must be an appended data section" rule by allowing it
to be empty so long as the colon is there. Hence:
meta:http://somesite.com/url-with:in-it:appended-data
meta:http://somesite.com/url-with:in-it:appended-data-with%3Acolon
meta:http://somesite.com/url-with:in-it-but-no-data:
It's a little less tidy because you need a different delimiter to separate
data items, but it would work.
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