Erik Hetzner wrote:
Which is of greater significance: the language translated from or language translated to? If you can’t answer that question, and I don’t think that you can, then you don’t have a hierarchy.
Which is greater significance: manufacturer, model year, model class, model type? You said /cars/ford/2007/f-series/f-150/ was acceptable. But, you can't answer which is more significant either. They are all required to uniquely identify the tuple, in this case a truck.
This url could have been as easily written starting with model year. Or, it could have been written starting with model type, etc. It doesn't matter, as ultimately all the candidate key attributes are required to uniquely identify the tuple.
Let's move the holy wars to the REST discussion list where they are more relevant, ok?
Adam
