[Doc-SIG] URLs
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:19:20 +0100
"Edward D. Loper" wrote:
>
> Since [] are not allowed in URLs, and we already have expressions of
> the form "name":[ref], how does the following sound:
>
> Use "name":[ref] for in-line hrefs. If ref is a single token, and
> there is a directive of the form:
>
> ..[ref] url
>
> Then use url as the URL; otherwise, use ref as the URL.
>
> Of course, we'd want to talk to the STNG people about this, but it
> seems to solve a number of problems:
> 1. detecting the end of the URL is trivial
> 2. "name":url. is no longer ambiguous, because we would either say
> "name":[url]. or "name":[url.]
> 3. It seems easier to read
> 4. '":[' is much less likely to occur unintentionally in text than
> '":' is. So we don't have to worry about people saying things
> like "foo":bar by accident, instead of intending an href.
>
> If we can agree upon it among ourselves, then I think we should start
> trying to convince the STNG people..
Sounds like a good idea, but don't you use angular brackets ?
These are recommended by the URI RFC, in wide use everywhere and
have similar properties...
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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