Re: [apps-discuss] APPSDIR review of draft-gregorio-uritemplate-07

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sat, 10 December 2011 22:39 UTC

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Yes. I ended up splitting it into two paragraphs, with the new sentence as the first (due to the combined length).

Cheers,


On 11/12/2011, at 9:28 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> On 12/10/11 3:15 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> 
>> On 10/12/2011, at 6:38 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> 
>>>  URI Templates provide a mechanism for abstracting a space of resource
>>>  identifiers such that the variable parts can be easily identified and
>>>  described.  URI templates can have many uses, including discovery of
>>>  available services, configuring resource mappings, defining computed
>>>  links, specifying interfaces, and other forms of programmatic
>>>  interaction with resources.  For example, the above resources could
>>>  be described by the following URI templates:
>> 
>> Seems workable to me.
> 
> To be clear, I suggested:
> 
>   A URI Template is a compact sequence of characters for describing a
>   range of Uniform Resource Identifiers through variable expansion.
>   URI Templates provide a mechanism for abstracting a space of resource
>   identifiers such that the variable parts can be easily identified and
>   described.  URI templates can have many uses, including discovery of
>   available services, configuring resource mappings, defining computed
>   links, specifying interfaces, and other forms of programmatic
>   interaction with resources.  For example, the above resources could
>   be described by the following URI templates:
> 
> (where the first sentence is copied from the Abstract...)
> 
> 

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