[Yanel-dev] 'rthtdocs' protocol now allows access to all resource-types (ditto for 'rtyanelhtocs')

[Michael Wechner]

Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> Just a quick message to announce that 'rthtdocs' and 'rtyanelhtocs' 
> protocols now allow access to all resource-types (not only the current 
> one)! This was done in revision 44493.

thanks very much :-)

It would be great if you could add this to the documentation of 
www.yanel.org

Cheers

Michi
>
> The syntax is not pretty, e.g.:
> rthtdocs:http%3a%2f%2fwww.company.com%2fyanel%2fresource%2f1.0::shared:/page.xslt 
>
>
> Why is the syntax so horrible and lengthy:
> - a unique ID for the resource-type must be used to be able to tell 
> the RT apart from all the others
> - one needs to escape at least ':' and '/' to be able to detect the 
> end of the RT unique ID (marked by ':/')
> - URL encoding is used to be consistent with what happens for 
> resource-types URLs, and because it is also easily recognizable
> - the universal name format is not used because it is even more 
> cryptic and longer, and it introduces angle brackets, which are not 
> allowed in URIs (this was for example an issue with base URIs used as 
> system IDs): we could maybe also escape them but doing that makes 
> things even more unreadable...
>
> Enjoy!
>    Guillaume