- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:35:18 -0700
- To: Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>
- Cc: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, uri@w3.org
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:46:39AM -0700, Jason Diamond wrote:
>
> > Now, there are only two errors with your URI scheme. The first is that the
> > characters "{" and "}" are disallowed in URIs per section 2.4.3 of RFC
> > 2396. This can be easily gotten round by using "(" and ")" instead, e.g.:-
> >
> > qn:(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)title
> >
> > that's a shame because I often use "{}" for QNames.
>
> I though that we had more flexibility in defining URIs based on the scheme.
There is still a limitation on the total set of characters -- how else
would you know how the URI is delimited from surrounding bits? {} is
excluded because it isn't used within URI, and it is a good idea to reserve
at least one set of brackets for variable replacement algorithms.
> Does a mailto URI fit the grammar given in 2396?
Yes.
....Roy
Received on Monday, 27 August 2001 02:37:59 UTC