Re: ERB call on addressing

> ? - means that the user-agent is to transmit the URL and Xptr to the
>     server, which is to use the Xptr to extract the desired sub-resource
>     and transmit it to the user-agent.  In this case, the Xptr must 
>     be preceded by the string "XML-PTR=" 
>     e.g.: http://www.xml.com/faq.xml?XML-PTR=ID(A27)

I object strongly to this. I recommed using the ";"
separator to produce a URL parameter instead of a query 
parameter. This does not add anything else to the already
overloaded query area, and allows mixed references and queries.

For example:

   http://foo.com/foo.sgml;XML-PTR=ID(A27)?keyword=foo

This is just as easily handled in CGI as anything else, and
cleanly separates addressing and querying. You can also
use it with fragment specifications.

Received on Monday, 24 March 1997 18:54:48 UTC