Jerome Velociter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had proposed to use the ^ character as attachment delimiter.
>> Ex: wiki:Space.Page^attachment
>>
>> However I've just realized while implementing it that it's an "unwise"
>> character in an URI
>> (source: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt)
>>
>> unwise      = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"
>>
>> Allowed punctuations characters are:
>>
>> mark        = "-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")"
>>
>> BTW the following are reserved:
>> reserved    = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | ","
>>
>> Note that we use ":" for wiki delimiter but that's okay since we're
>> using an opaque URI and thus reserved chars, unreserved chars and
>> escaped chars are authorized.
>>
>> I think it would be better to choose amongst one the valid chars for
>> the attachment to prevent future problems.
>>
>> Of course this means we'll have to make that character forbidden in a
>> page name. Actually we could also decide that it's character forbidden
>> in an attachment (and use lastIndexOf() instead of indexOf() to
>> separate the page name from the attachment name). Or we could double
>> it once again...
>>
>> I propose we use the @ symbol since it's not a char used often in page
>> names.
>>
>> For example:
>> attach:wiki:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> looks good, +1

sounds pretty ok, +1

> 
>> This raises the discussion of the full FQN we'd like to have when we
>> support nested spaces too. For example:
>>
>> (wiki name) "::" (space name) [ "." (space name)]* "::" (page name)
>> ["@" (attachment name)]?
>>
>> Now what about referencing objects and properties using a URI too? Do
>> we want that? What would be the use? Right now I don't see a use and
>> using an API to access them seems fine to me.
>>
>> Alternative view
>> ============
>>
>> We could also only specify the attachment name in the uri and use link
>> parameters to specify the document where it's located as in:
>>
>> [[image:my.png>>document="wiki:Space.Page"]]

Would we want to pass other parameters than ones that can be directly copied in
html attributes?

>>
>> This sounds reasonable to me too. I think the real question is whether
>> we need a textual representation of an attachment FQN or not.
> 
> Do we have use cases already for such FQN ? Annotations ?
> 
> Jerome.
> 
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
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