-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tres Seaver wrote: > Tres Seaver wrote: >> Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> I'm not convinced it's a great solution, but something like URISpace >>> may be appropriate; >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/urispace.html >>> What's nice about this is that you buy some efficiency by walking down >>> the tree, rather than evaluating a linear set of rules... >> Interesting spec: I can see uses for it elsewhere. A quick question, >> (since grubbing around shows you to be the author;): in section 3.3, >> "Path Segments," the semantics of <path match="foo"> are to match the >> "next" element in the current path, right? Rather than matching any >> random element (CSS style), or (for instance) the last element (which >> would be useful in particular for the empty pattern and filename globs). > >> Is the spec frozen / dead, or could we suggest additions? E.g.: > >> <path any="archives"> > >> and: > >> <path last=""> > >> I can certainly put such extensions into another namespace, but they >> seem reasonably tightly connected to the existing "first match" semantics. > > BTW, I have banged out a Python implementation of a good bit of the > spec, including extensions for "last element" and "any element" path > selectors. I plan to use the library in conjunction with various WSGI > middleware to allow for URI-based selection of things like theme, role > grants, and caching headers: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.urispace > > (I'll work on getting the ReStructuredText on that page to render later).
The PyPI page is still unrendered, but cooked versions of the docs are online here: http://static.repoze.org/urispacedocs/ Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIuZ0O+gerLs4ltQ4RAhZPAJ9q/PKve7pgOkMNkeojd9RRhLJ+zwCgvL1F iowu4qiHOq8fhgsuomi+fiQ= =eSDv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
