On Wed Dec 12 15:49:10 2007, Ralph Meijer wrote:
In line with XEP-0147, I would like to register the empty string as
a
XMPP URI/IRI Querytype for the purpose of pointing to a specific
note
without implying a particular action.
Actually, this strikes me as particularly good.
URIs are, supposedly, used for addressing an object. However, the
resolution of a URI - getting at the object data - usually supposes a
particular action be used. In some cases, where URIs don't provide a
useful action, this is a pain. "http" scheme URIs suffer from this,
because we can't say "Open this URI as a WebDAV collection", or
"Checkout this resource as a DeltaV working copy".
But sometimes it's very useful to use a URI purely as an address, and
"xmpp" scheme URIs do suffer from the problem that there usually *is*
an explicit action.
So I quite like the notion of using the empty query type as an
explicit action of no action - addressing a node is one such case,
but I suspect there may be others. (Maybe not today, maybe not
tomorrow, etc)
Dave.
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