Re: Who can express URL syntax with BNF

Tony Sanders <sanders@BSDI.COM>
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Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 18:15:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: Who can express URL syntax with BNF 
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Gunter writes:
> If SPACEJUMP and TEXTSEARCH are attributes of an object, not methods ---
> what are we going to do if we move from URLs to URNs? The every URN is
> an object with an associated attribute. Will there be different URNs for
> "get me a document" and "search in a document"?

When you resolve a URN you will get back a set of URLs with varying
attributes, the browser must pick one of them and use it in the normal way.

--sanders