RE: [xri] XRI Escaping Tool

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.

http://www.wachob.com/xriescape/

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.

-Gabe

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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