Re: initial draft of "URI Template Descriptions"
Nicholas Shanks <[email protected]>
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I think URI templating is detrimental to the web and should not receive any standards body endorsement. Can you present a use case which cannot be solved by lists of URIs and forms? — Nicholas. On 7 Dec 2012, at 20:45, Erik Wilde <[email protected]> wrote: > hello all. > > i just sumbitted an initial draft of "URI Template Descriptions" as > draft-wilde-template-desc-00. however, it seems that there currently is > a bit of delay before submissions become actually visible, so in the > meantime i'd like to announce the draft on this list, and start > gathering feedback. i'll send a brief note once the draft is available > through the official IETF channels. > > all of this is still work in progress, but i thought it would be great > to get community feedback early on. at > https://github.com/dret/I-D/tree/master/template-desc you can find the > document sources, as well as a schema (yes, it's XSD) td-00.xsd and a > simple sample description document td-paging-00.xml. since this is meant > to be for describing and documentation, td-00.xslt is a simple XSLT that > can be used to generate a simple HTML version of the description. > td-paging-00.xml links to this stylesheet, and XSLT-capable browsers > will render the HTML client-side. but you can also simply look at > td-paging-00.html for the static HTML version. > > for now, i'd be interested in feedback about the idea as a whole, as > well as about features/capabilities you'd like to see added, if you are > considering this to be something that could be useful for you. > implementation-wise, i'd like to add URI Template support to the code > (but then it needs to be XSLT 2.0 and stops working client-side), so > that it would be possible to parse the URI Template, and match variables > in it against variables in the description. > > thanks and cheers, > > dret. > > -- > erik wilde | mailto:[email protected] - tel:+1-510-2061079 | > | UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool) | > | http://dret.net/netdret http://twitter.com/dret | >