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Subject: FW: [xdi] abbreviation mechanism for XRI's


I did a little digging into the XRI 2.0 and IRI specs.
 
"[" and "]" Are xri-gen-delims, which does mean they are currently reserved, so this would require an XRI spec mod.
However, XRI makes no use of these chars, they're marked as xri-gen-delims as they are reserved in IRI.
 
Their use within IRI is for IP literals (ie. for IPv6+). With that in mind "[" are prob out. Perhaps "{" "}", which are not covered under XRI or IRI. Of course then we have the problem of readability between "{}" and "()". Brackets would be ideal, but then XDI addresses would not be XRIs, or XRIs would not be IRIs, neither of which are acceptable I'd think.
 
Another option, though somewhat ugly is ((label:oneormoresegments)) which also makes the grouping looking like a special kind of cross-reference, which in a very loose sense it would seem to be. The following would reference the labelled segments ((label)). This may be the most workable as ")" is a xri-sub-delim, and it may be in line with our current use of "(", though I'm leary of making "("'s meaning depend on the character that follows it.
 
 
Bill Barnhill
Senior Consultant (XML, Emerging Technologies, Web Services, Java)
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
mailto:barnhill_william@bah.com
phone:+1.315.330.7386


From: ad@ootao.com [mailto:ad@ootao.com]
Sent: Thu 6/30/2005 12:00 PM
To: xdi@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xdi] abbreviation mechanism for XRI's


I like this a lot and will start using it in my documents. However... Is it valid for XRI 2.0? if not I'm not going to include support for it in the actual implementations (for now).

Dave? Drummond?

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"Barnhill William" <barnhill_william@bah.com>

06/30/2005 06:32 AM

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RE: [xdi] Dollar word proposed for data types-$type





 
Ah, ok. I thought it was $l-en. If we used hierarchy for the $l system I agree, we should use it for this as well. Also, after thinking about it hierarchy does make sense, though it adds more parens.
 
What are everyone's thoughts on a possible abbreviation mechanism for XRI's, and on the following ideas for such an mechanism? IMHO some of the XRIs we're using in our examples are very long, and an abbreviation scheme would be nice for five reasons:
(1) Increased human readability (low priority)
(2) Decreased bandwidth (high priority)
(3) Streamlined XRI parsing (if you parse an abbreviated authority once, you can cache it for rest of XRI. Implementers will do caching anyway, but an abbreviation would make recognizing when to pull from cache easier)
(4) If we want people to be able to type XRIs or, more likely, use them as links in a browser, then I seem to remember a 256 character limit in IE, possibly other browsers.  That limit may have been removed by now, I'm don't know.
(5) Referencing parts of the XRI in the XRI processing
 
The scheme I'm thinking of would use some grouping characters not used by XRI spec currently..[], perhaps? These would be used in a manner similar to the way regex groups work. Where you have a repeated XDI addressing path xxx, you'd replace the first instance with [somelabel|xxx] and further instances with [somelabel]. For most cases this would be [1|xxx] and [1]. Another decision would be whether or not to allow nesting.
 
Bill Barnhill
Senior Consultant (XML, Emerging Technologies, Web Services, Java)
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
mailto:barnhill_william@bah.com
phone:+1.315.330.7386
 


From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net]
Sent:
Wed 6/29/2005 11:59 PM
To:
Barnhill William
Subject:
RE: [xdi] Dollar word proposed for data types-$type

Cool idea. $type is already one of our "default dollar words" by virtue of
being one of the XDI schema elements. And at first blush this seems like a
good use of it. I also like the idea of making the fragment identifiers in
the W3C Schema Datatypes spec the default.

I also suggest we go with true hierarchy, i.e., slash. This is what we did
with $l in the XRI Metadata spec - slash delineates the instances of the
type, whereas * delegates to subtypes. For example with $l, the immediate
children (i.e., if there is no delegated *name after $l) are defined to be
two-letter language tags from (I forget the name of the RFC - see the spec
at

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/11854/xri-metadata-V2.0-cd
-01.pdf). For example:

       $l/en           for English
       $l/fr           for French

So with the $type space, we would specify (in the Service Dictionary spec)
that the default child namespace under $type is the set of fragment
identifier in the W3C Schema datatypes spec.

       $type/string
       $type/float

Then you could extend type definition to any other namespace as follows:

       $type*(=foo/mytypes)/custom.type

Sure meets the simplicity test. Thoughts?

=Drummond

-----Original Message-----
From: barnhill_william@bah.com [
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:25 PM
To: xdi@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xdi] Dollar word proposed for data types-$type

$type-xxx where xxx is the fragment identifier from the W3C schema datatype
or $type-yyy-xxx where yyy is the ident for a type system other than W3C
schema datatypes.



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