Re: URI Templates - optional variables?

Marc Hadley scripsit:

> I realize most folks are focussed on the template->URI conversion  
> process but I'm currently most interested in matching URIs to  
> templates and if we introduce the need to refer to external  
> processing extensions I don't see how such matching can be  
> implemented in the general case. 

That's very interesting.  Someone should see whether Joe's proposal
is invertible: go from a URI and a template to a bunch of variables.

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