- From: Joe Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:53:57 -0400
- To: "James M Snell" <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, "Stefan Eissing" <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, URI <uri@w3.org>
On 10/17/07, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice. it would be cool if you could include a couple of example
> expansions into the output.
I'm not sure if that would be helpful or confusing.
I will have to think about it some more.
I did add some example URI Templates to the page so you
can see how it works w/o making up your own template.
-joe
>
> Also, I have the new scheme implemented in Java:
>
> http://www.snellspace.com/public/uritemplates.zip
>
> - James
>
> Joe Gregorio wrote:
> > 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
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