RE: [xri] Human Readable Resource Identifiers

Good catch, Gabe. Perhaps we should also cite this, even informatively, in XRI Syntax 2.1 as guidance about encoding certain common chars that need escaping in XRI-normal form.

=Drummond

From: Gabe Wachob [mailto:gabe.wachob@amsoft.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:53 PM
To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xri] Human Readable Resource Identifiers

From Norm Walsh and Richard Tobin:

http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-walsh-tobin-hrri-00.txt

Seems sorta like the XRI -> IRI escaping rules for any unstructured identifier:

2.  Motivation

   Several XML-related specifications use strings which are interpreted

   as IRIs, but which allow the use of characters which must be escaped

   in a legal IRI, such as delimiters and a few ASCII characters.

   Examples include XML System Identifiers[4], the href attribute in

   XLink[5], and XML Base attributes[6].  These specifications all

   describe, with slightly different wording, the same algorithm for

   converting that string to an IRI.  The purpose of this RFC is to

   provide a single definition which can be referenced by these

   specifications, and to provide a name for strings of this type: Human

   Readable Resource Identifiers.

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