Marc Hadley wrote: >[snip] >> name = joe.gregorio >> mailto:{name}@gmail.com >> >> expands to: >> >> joe.gregorio@gmail.com >> > But you can't have mailto:{address} which seems a little unfortunate. > Yes, I think this is a problem also. At the very least, allow unencoded @'s in the variable value. > Another concern if we eliminate segment spanning variables is how to > define a template for something like > > http://example.com/webdav_root/{path} > > where {path} is some arbitrary path on a WebDAV server. > I can definitely understand the desire to do this but I think the need to keep things simple should take precedence. spanning segments is problematic at best. > I also got some feedback on the users@wadl.dev.java.net mailing list > that the spec should require at least one reserved character between > template variables since, in the general case, its impossible to work > out the values of the template variables after substitution. E.g. given > the template > > http://example.com/{foo}{bar} > > and the URI > > http://example.com/xyzzy > > you can't tell what the values of foo and bar are. > +1. Otherwise, unless each variable is associated with an unambiguous regex it's impossible to go from URI->template - JamesReceived on Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:55:19 UTC
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