- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:41:01 +1000
- To: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, public-iri@w3.org
FWIW - https://gist.github.com/138549 Cheers, On 19/04/2011, at 4:32 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> On 18.04.2011 19:26, Adam Barth wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> >>> wrote: >>>> On 18.04.2011 18:08, Adam Barth wrote: >>>>>> I think it would be extremely useful to have a comparison how those >>>>>> tests >>>>>> with absolute URIs would be parsed by the regexp in the URI spec: >>>>>> >>>>>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.B> >>>>>> >>>>>> Are there differences? And if there are, do UAs agree on what to do >>>>>> with >>>>>> those inputs? >>>>> >>>>> Is there an easy way to execute that regular expression? That >>>>> document doesn't provide a reference defining the semantics of the >>>>> regular expression. It alludes to POSIX regular expressions. Is >>>>> there some way to write a POSIX program that executes it? In any >>>>> case, I'd be happy to consider it if someone can explain to me how to >>>>> run it over the test suite mentioned above. >>>> >>>> How about just using JS regexps, and see where we can get from there? >>> >>> Is that correct? JS regular expressions are Perl-compatible regular >>> expressions. Is that the same as POSIX regular expressions in this >>> context? >> >> I don't know for sure but I'm pretty confident it won't make a difference >> for that particular one. > > Ok. I'll give it a try. Thanks. > > Adam > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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