Re: initial draft of "URI Template Descriptions"

You realise that URI templates and forms are, more-or-less, the same kind of thing, albeit with the former being more flexible in kinds of URI it can generate than the latter?

Nicholas Shanks <[email protected]> wrote:

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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?
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>— Nicholas.
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>On 7 Dec 2012, at 20:45, Erik Wilde <[email protected]> wrote:
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>hello all.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>thanks and cheers,
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>dret.
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>-- 
>erik wilde | mailto:[email protected] - tel:+1-510-2061079 |
>| UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool) |
>| http://dret.net/netdret http://twitter.com/dret |
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