This is great. Thanks
Gabe. Did you find the rules to be confusing or hard to
interpret?
From: Wachob,
Gabe [mailto:gwachob@visa.com]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:15
PM
To:
xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xri] XRI Escaping
Tool
For my own understanding, and as a
service to the XRI community, I have written a tool to implement what I
understand to be the XRI to URI transformation rules. If you input an XRI with
unicode (or just ascii) characters, it will display the IRI-normal and
URI-normal forms. This obviously requires a utf-capable OS & browser,
which is most of them these days. Tested on firefox 1.0 and
IE6.
Please do try it. I've implemented
this using the python unicode facilities and the escaping rules as I interpret
them. I would like everyone to try this out themselves and please report back
a) if the results are what you expect and b) if you see any hiccups.
I think one of the most
complicated facets of XRI syntax is the escaping rules, but they are critical
for interoperability, so please do hammer away.
P.S. I will, of course, publish
source code once I get a feeling that its producing results that seem to be
agreeable with everyone.
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