On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:43 +0100, James Rutherford wrote: > I don't see what's so unusual or undesirable about colons. The reasoning > behind doing it this way was so that the value after "/uri/" is the > canonical form of the identifier.
The colon is a reserved character, and in this example would have to be encoded to be strictly valid according to the specifications - which would then mean it isn't the canonical form. Not encoding the colon will have the potential to cause problems with proxies, firewalls, etc. G This email has been scanned by Postini. For more information please visit http://www.postini.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
