Re: Feedback on draft-gregorio-uritemplate-00

My preference would be to allow all characters allowed in URIs in  
template names; that way, it's easy to describe and understand what  
their range is, and we already know how useful URIs are...


On 2006/10/10, at 8:51 AM, James M Snell wrote:

> I'd prefer to have SPACE in there but I can definitely live without  
> it.
>  The reasons for not allowing it are definitely quite valid.
>
> - James
>
> Stefan Eissing wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> SPACE (if it is what i think it is) seems like a bad idea. The
>> whitespace-ness of URI endings is very dear to me. I would like to  
>> see
>> that extended in templates.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> Am 09.10.2006 um 19:01 schrieb James M Snell:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I totally agree, and had thought that's where we ended up (we  
>>>> did a lot
>>>> of last-minute adjustments ;). The template variable name should  
>>>> be able
>>>> to be a full URI, with the full range of allowable characters  
>>>> available
>>>> to it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope. When we cut back template-name to just the unreserved set we
>>> eliminate the possibility that a template variable could be a  
>>> full URI.
>>>
>>> I think Stefan's suggestion of a two part definition is very good so
>>> long as the template variable is still considered opaque to the  
>>> template
>>> processing code.
>>>
>>> I would only make a couple of edits to Stefan's suggested ABNF
>>>
>>>   template-char = unreserved
>>>   template-name  = 1*template-char
>>>   ext_char = unreserved / reserved / pct-encoded /
>>>              SPACE / "|" / "\" / "^" / "`"
>>>   template-ext = 1*ext_char
>>>   template-var  = "{" template-name [ ":" template-ext ] "}"
>>>
>>> Examples:
>>>
>>>   Simple: {foo}
>>>   Bash-style parameter expansion: {foo:=bar}
>>>   URI: {foo:http://example.org/defs#Foo}
>>>   Regex {foo:\d+}
>>>   XPath: {foo:/a/b/c/@d}
>>>   ABNF: {foo:1*unreserved}
>>>
>>> In other words, this definition would give us a great deal of  
>>> optional
>>> flexibility while keeping the template-name itself very simple and
>>> predictable.
>>>
>>> It would not be that difficult* for uri template library code to  
>>> provide
>>> generic resolvers capable of supporting a variety of template-ext
>>> vocabularies.  However, I anticipate that the vast majority of users
>>> wouldn't use anything more complicated than a simple Map.
>>>
>>> - James
>>>
>>> * The only thing that becomes difficult is determining which
>>> template-ext vocabulary is being used so that an appropriate  
>>> resolver
>>> can be selected.
>>>
>>
>>


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Received on Tuesday, 10 October 2006 21:15:58 UTC