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jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes: >Our Indo-European ancestors (or antecessors), those of us who have >them, anyhow. Adjectives are just a variant of nouns. In Chinese, >OTOH, they are a variant of verbs. I can think through http://simonstl.com/ as either a noun or a verb without difficulty, but I think the REST folks would prefer that I treat it as a noun. In either case, using http://simonstl.com/adjectives/red/ is kind of stupid, don't you think? >There is a very nice mapping from media types to URIs: prepend >"http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/" to the media type. >One can do similar things for language tags, port numbers, protocol >types, etc. I'm aware of the convention, but I have to confess that using it repeatedly reduces me to helpless laughter. A 44-character penalty for using an over-generalized specification is pretty ridiculous. At least namespaces provide an abbreviated form that's human-readable, if not human-comprehensible. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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