- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:30:14 -0800
- To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
> > It is plausible to consider that both terminators and separators are > > delimiters. > > I look at it like this: a terminator or separator, especially in > linear data, > does not necessarily offset a piece of data from all other adjacent > data, > which is what I perceive the role of a delimiter to be; it just gives > you a way > to distinguish between what data precedes and what data follows the > separator > itself, which may or may not be enough information to identify a > finite range. A delimiter marks the beginning or end of a unit of data. A separator separates two units of data. In CSV, for instance, a line containing a single comma represents two empty units of data. A separator is therefore a bidirectional delimiter. rfc2396bis uses the term delimiter correctly. Some of them are being used as separators, but they also delimiters. ....Roy
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