Re: [Yaml-core] tag domains

[T. O. <tra...@ru...>]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:32 pm, Clark C. Evans wrote:
> Correct.  It actually simplified a great deal of things, including the
> question you just asked.  Of course, there is nothing stopping you from
> using a URL for your private tag, but that's entirely different...
>
>     %TAG tag:geewiz.net,2002: gw
>     %TAG http://herwe.org/
>     ---
>     - !gw|int 23                     # global   tag:geewiz.net,2002:int
>     - !!int 23                       # global   http://herwe.org/int
>     - !tag:geewiz.net,2000:int 23    # private !tag:geewiz.net,2002:int
>     - !http://herewe.org/int 23      # private !http://herewe.org/int
>     ...
>
> Basically, when you get a tag via the API use these rules:
>
>   - if it starts with a "!" it was a private tag
>   - if it starts with a "?" the tags was unspecified
>   - if it starts with an alpha, it is a global tag, matching
>     the absolute URI production of RFC 2396 plus # [ ]
>   - else the parser screwed up

Just thought of something. If global URI's can only be in the %TAG directives, 
and the %TAG directives are essentially just prefixes, how will emitting 
work?

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T.