RE: [xri-editors] Xref escaping rules

["Wachob, Gabe" <gwachob@visa.com>]

Drummond-
	This seems pretty reasonable. 

	Have you considered the case where you have two levels of cross referencing? That is, a cross reference which contains an XRI value that itself has a cross reference? 

xri://foo.bar/(+foo.bar.(http://www.foo.com#3ffoo))/baz

vs

xri://foo.bar/(+foo.bar.(http://www.foo.com(#3f)foo))/baz

vs

xri://foo.bar/(+foo.bar.(http://www.foo.com((#3f))foo))/baz

I think you need to amend the rules about escaping/unescaping to account for nesting.. 

	-Gabe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@onename.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:15 PM
> To: xri-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [xri-editors] Xref escaping rules
> 
> 
> Here's the escaping proposal that I brought up on the last TC call.
>  
> The issue is that an XRI or URI is used as a cross-reference 
> may contain
> characters that must be escaped in order to conform with 2396.
> Specifically:
>  
> * "?" may not appear until the start of the one-and-only query segment
> allowed by 2396.
> * The same is true with "#" for fragments
> * Lastly, an UNMATCHED opening or closing paren must be 
> escaped or else
> the cross-reference will not parse correctly. (Note that 
> MATCHED opening
> and closing parens inside do not need escaping because they represent
> either a second-level nested cross-reference or a parenthetically
> enclosed string in a native URI but either way will not be ambiguous.)
>  
> However we can't use just 2396 escaping rules (i.e., "%xx" where xx is
> the hex value of the character) for these four characters 
> because it if
> the embedded XRI or URI contained those same escape sequences 
> natively,
> it would be ambiguous which to unescape and not to unescape when the
> cross-reference is extracted. For example, if a URI already contained
> the escape sequence %3F (the "?" character) before it was 
> turned into a
> cross-reference, how would the parser know NOT to unescape it when
> extracting the cross-reference?
>  
> The proposed solution is to apply two special escaping rules to any
> URI/XRI string being embedded as a cross-reference. They must 
> be applied
> in the following order:
>  
> 1) Parse the string to find any instance of "%3F", "%23", "%28", or
> "%29" and enclose these in parens. Example: "(%3F)".
> 2) Escape any "?", "#", or UNMATCHED paren as per 2396 escaping.
> Example: a URI that contained a query would have the "?" turned into
> %3F.
>  
> To extract a cross-reference, apply the same two rules in 
> reverse, i.e.:
>  
> 1) From the extracted cross-reference, escape any instance of 
> %3F, %23,
> %28, or %29 EXCEPT those enclosed in parens.
> 2) For any instance of "%3F", "%23", "%28", or "%29" enclosed 
> in parens,
> remove the parens.
>  
> Example: 
>  
> Embed: URI "http://foo.com/?id=21#bar" in XRI "xri:@foo/baz/"
> Result: "xri:@foo/baz/(http://foo.com/%3Fid=21%23bar)"
>  
>  
> Embed: URI "http://foo.com/?id=21-%28widget#bar" in XRI 
> "xri:@foo/baz/"
> Result: "xri:@foo/baz/(http://foo.com/%3Fid=21-(%28)widget%23bar)"
>  
> Does this work for everyone? Any other proposals?
>  
> =Drummond 
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