On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:56:58AM +0100, Graham Triggs wrote: > 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.
Well if we're going to be strict, we should escape the value of the handle 1234/56 as 1234%2F56. Since DSpace already breaks this rule, I didn't deem including a colon as such a great crime ;) Of course, it would be better if we could use an identifier scheme that didn't require escaped characters, but most will at least have a "/" to separate prefix from suffix. If we're going to be strict, I think I'd favour the following form: http://dspace.me.ac.uk/uri/hdl%3A1234%2F56 or maybe http://dspace.me.ac.uk/uri/hdl/1234%2F56 Jim -- James Rutherford | Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Research Engineer | Cain Road, HP Labs | Bracknell, Bristol, UK | Berks +44 117 312 7066 | RG12 1HN. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Registered No: 690597 England The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error, you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. To any recipient of this message within HP, unless otherwise stated you should consider this message and attachments as "HP CONFIDENTIAL". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
