- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:08:18 -0400
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:54:57PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> Because they shouldn't, not because they are disallowed. I also said
> that
> XPointer is broken because it specifies characters disallowed by 2396,
> but that was referring to the message that Elliotte dug up. Parens are
> just bad design. Any form of balanced delimiter syntax is silly within
> an LR parsed syntax -- all it does is make implementations less
> efficient.
Not to mention how it's non-sensical in the face of relative URI
handling, ala;
basejoin("http://example.org/foo(a/b)","c") =
"http://example.org/foo(a/c"
Mark.
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Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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