Re: URI Templates - optional variables?

On 10/16/07, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> I want templates to be easy for a computer to read and easy for
> a computer to generate from that reading a fully-descriptive
> page of information in the user's favorite language.  For example,
> define a web service that inputs a template and outputs the
> readable description according to the Accept-Language received.
>
>      http://example.com/explain_template?{URItemplate}
>
> I bet Joe could write one of those in an hour -- it would save
> him the time of regenerating all those email examples. ;-)

Wow, that took exactly one hour:

   http://bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/

Sorry, no language translations yet. Here is an example
of the service in action:

  http://tinyurl.com/yomkdy

   -joe

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Joe Gregorio        http://bitworking.org