Changeset 12613 for trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/url-pathnames.markdown

Timestamp:

04/15/10 14:51:18 (13 years ago)

Author:

Mark Evenson

Message:

Document URL and jar pathname design changes.

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• trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/url-pathnames.markdown (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/abcl/doc/design/pathnames/url-pathnames.markdown

@@ -4 +4 @@
     Mark Evenson
     Created:  25 MAR 2010
-    Modified: 26 MAR 2010 
+    Modified: 11 APR 2010
 
 Notes towards an implementation of URL references to be contained in
@@ -90 +90 @@
         Valid authority according to the URI scheme.  For "http" this
         could be "example.org:8080".
+    :QUERY
+        The query of the URI
+    :FRAGMENT
+        The fragment portion of the URI
         
 The DIRECTORY, NAME and TYPE fields of the PATHNAME are used to form
 the URI `path` according to the conventions of the UNIX filesystem
-(i.e. '/' is the directory separator). If needed, `query` and `fragment`
-portions of a URL are to be included in the URL pathname NAME
-component.  In a sense the HOST contains the base URL, to which the
-`path` is a relative URL.
+(i.e. '/' is the directory separator).  In a sense the HOST contains
+the base URL, to which the `path` is a relative URL (although this
+abstraction is violated somwhat by the storing of the QUERY and
+FRAGMENT portions of the URI in the HOST component).
 
 For the purposes of PATHNAME-MATCH-P, two URL pathnames may be said to