Re: [xml-dev] URI for class names and native data types

["Clark C . Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:15:43PM -0000, Leigh Dodds wrote:
| For Java purposes, why not use the javadoc URI?
| e.g. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html

Thanks Leigh,

That is a good idea, but I'd prefer a mechanism that
works across multiple languages.  After reading the
RFC a bit more, I was thinking something like this:

   type://language/the/package/path#classname

Examples:

Java's java.lang.String         type://java/java/lang#String
Python's win32com.client.genpy  type://python/win32com/client#genpy
Perl's Net::Ftp                 type://perl/Net#Ftp

Anything like this out there?  I did searching, but I don't
see any uniformed "type URI".  Would something like the
above be a good proposal?  

Best,

Clark

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