RE: URIs for the standard output and input streams

> > In my XSLT 2.0 processor (Gestalt), I am using URIs to 
> represent the 
> > standard output and input streams for consistency of addresssing
> > (stdin: and stdout: respectively, with no other lexical 
> forms - so no 
> > relative URIs).
>
> Although if you were going to do this you'd want stderr as 
> well, and you'd probably like to avoid creating three new URI 
> schemes, so something like std:in/std:out/std:err or maybe 
> urn:std:in, etc. would work well.

Rather than "std:" wouldn't something like "stdio:" make a bit more sense?
OTOH, "stdin:", "stdout:", "stderr:" are more "standard", no pun intended,
so I'd wonder it wouldn't make sense to go with them?  Just a thought...

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