Re: [xri] host-meta comments

The problem is that this will make it impossible to use an existing  
HTTP header parser (e.g., in Python, Perl, Ruby, whatever's standard  
library), a goal that's guided a lot of the design.

Why not just use

Link: </foo>; rel="something"
Comment: This one is for you, Joe!
Link </bar>; rel="joes-link"

?


On 19/02/2009, at 3:54 AM, Dirk Balfanz wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Breno de Medeiros  
> <breno@google.com> wrote:
> While /host-meta is intended to be parsed by machines and not human- 
> readable content, it is often the case that users eyeball such  
> content for clues. For instance:
>
> 1. Developer is writing and debugging a library to parse host-meta  
> files.
> 2. Developer is looking at /host-meta examples to get clues on how  
> to write one for his site.
>
> Being able to add human-readable comments on site-meta can be useful  
> for such tasks. It also helps to preserve 'institutional memory' by  
> documentation in place, which is often the only one that developers  
> can locate.
>
> Should there be a simple mechanism for line comments in site-meta?
>
> +1 for comments.
>
> I propose that any line that starts with # (possibly preceded by  
> whitespace) is a comment.
>
> Dirk.


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