URI Design

[Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@engrm.com>]

    I'm working on my XML pipeline engine, Relay. I'm using special
    URIs to view information as documents. I'm creating a servlet,
    for example, that explodes the HttpServletRequest into a
    document, so I can bite into it with XSLT.

    <request>
      <path-info>/foo/bar</path-info>
      <server-name>engrm.com</server-name>
      <content-type>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</content-type>
      <content-uri>request://content/</content-uri>
    </request>

    The above document is available from the URI:

    request://document/

    As you can see, I get the input as a stream using:

    request://content/

    I parse the content of the post in a Relay, and it makes each
    form field avaialable as a stream, in case one of the fields is
    really a hidden field with an JavaScript generated XML document in it.

    Or, else, I can run a textarea through HTML Tidy, to permit mild
    markup in a comments box.

    That URI looks like:

    request://field/e-mail-address/1

    Which will return the first field named e-mail-address as a
    stream.

    What do you all think? Am I designing these URIs correctly?

    Should I bother making them heirarcical? Or should I simply
    create my own interpreation of the scheme specific part?

    request:document
    request:content
    request:field:e-mail-address[1]

    Thanks.

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