Re: URI Templates - optional variables?

On Oct 17, 2007, at 7:15 AM, 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/

Woohoo!  I won something.  I suggest adding to the examples the
URI template(s) for the URI template explain service.

....Roy

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 18:57:50 UTC