Re: Unwrapping urn:public:...

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

dcpleland@ftnetwork.com wrote:

> Norm Walsh wrote;
> 
>> I think going the last step and allowing
> 
> 
>   -//* to match "urn:publicid:-:*"
> 
>> adding unnecessary confusion for users and burden for implementors.
> 
> 
> I have been thinking this all along.

Hmm, okay.  I'm not used to thinking of "match" as irreflexive, but in
this case it may make sense for it to be.

> I cannot truly understand why we have reinvented the nomenclature for
> the white space in the url either.  Is not '%20' good enough?

It%27s%20visually%20very%20cluttered,%20and%20spaces%20are%20extremely%20common.


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