Re: URI Pattern Syntax

  > [...]
  > Level 0 Specification - Prefix Matching.
  > 
  > The most common need for template matching is to specify a prefix.
  > 
  > In the level 0 specification a wildcard is only valid at the end of the
  > pattern. Implementations need only match on a prefix therefore. The
  > following are valid level 0 patterns:
  > 
  > http://www.w3.org/pub/%*
  > http://www.w3.org/p%*
  > http://www.w3.org/pub/

I have found it useful to have a pattern, call it %?, that matched '/*'
or the empty string, as in
	http://www.w3.org/pub%?

that matches
	http://www.w3.org/pub
	http://www.w3.org/pub/
	http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/
but not
	http://www.w3.org/public

Dave Kristol

Received on Friday, 23 February 1996 12:41:34 UTC