Vincent Massol wrote:

Hi devs,

I'm working on implementing the new link format we've decided, i.e.:

label>reference>param1=value1 ... paramN=valueN

Note that there's a potential ambiguity with the following link:

text>param=value

Since this can be considered as either: * label = text, reference = "param=value" * reference = text, parameters = "param=value"

Thus we have to decide that it's fordbidden to use "=" in document names or we need to find a different link format.

I think forbidding "=" is fine.

WDYT?

That's one thing I didn't like at the proposed link syntax. Why not request parameters to always be on the third position? The semantic shouldn't influence the syntax, I really don't like sniffing to determine what that fragment does. And I don't think we should forbid characters in document names. Another option would be to use different delimiters, for example > as the delimiter between label and reference, and | as a delimiter before parameters (note that > and | were both valid delimiters in the old syntax) -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/