Re: Data elements and other jazz

Mitra (mitra@path.net)
Fri, 29 Oct 1993 20:14:49 PDT

From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 20:14:49 PDT
In-Reply-To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
To: peterd@bunyip.com, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Data elements and other jazz
Message-Id: <9310292014.aa18695@pandora.sf.ca.us>

Peter,

Several people have given examples of how nested attributes work, I'm trying
to leave it open for the easiest way that whois++ would support them.

Typically you have something like a template being.

URN: urn:xyz.abc:123456
Author: Mike
URL: ftp://path.net/here
Cost: $1.00
URL: gopher://free.net/there
Cost: 0

Note that the position of the Cost attribute is significant, they each apply
to the URL above them, not to the URN.

Ole and Mike both proposed similar schemes, I dont think anyone cares
how it appears in a template, but we do need to know that this is possible.

- Mitra