From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199310291449.AA14864@oit.oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: options, not nesting?
To: terry@ora.com (Terry Allen)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 10:49:52 EDT
In-Reply-To: <199310282259.AA24745@rock.west.ora.com>; from "Terry Allen" at Oct 28, 93 3:59 pm
Terry Allen said this:
> If the contents of your template are of the form
> URI: URN
> URI: URL
> URI: URL
> URI: URL
> what is the point of URI? I'm sure you have one, but I missed it.
None if you have URL: in front of a URL. If you don't you end up with
URN:IANA:blabla
http://bla.com/bla/bla
Then your parser has to know about EVERY possible URL protocol scheme. Plus
it needs to be updated whenever you add a new scheme. If you just
have URN: and URL: exist within a Template you end up with:
URN:URN:IANA:bla
URL:http://bla.com/bla
That's acceptable but it makes URNs just look funny. I would prefer this:
URN:IANA:bla
URL:http://bla.com/bla
but I can live with the URN:URN: version...
-MM
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