- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:27:21 -0700
- To: Robbie Gates <robbie@m8s.org>
- Cc: URI <uri@w3.org>
On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Robbie Gates wrote:
>> I don't understand why the expansions of ? and & include list= for
>> each entry when exploded. The description of the handling for the case
>> of an exploded list makes no mention of the use of the name, and there
>> is no separate section (as there is for the unexploded case). Also,
>> the table makes ; the same as ? and & for named, and yet their
>> handling appears different. The descriptions in 3.2.7 and 3.2.8 /
>> 3.2.9 are likewise similar. In short, i can't see why the examples
>> differ, given the rest of the document, i was expecting
>>
>> {?list*} ?red&green&blue
>> {&list*} &red&green&blue
>
> Hi Robbie,
>
> Yes, you are right -- that is a bug in the new algorithms that
> I added for draft 06. I'll work on a fix.
Actually, after having tried a fix to the algorithm, I think it
would be more useful to have the result you expect above (and it
would simplify the algorithm). That also would provide a means
to define value-only parameters in the query component, which has
been requested in a private discussion.
....Roy
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