[mdx] Request URL format description

Milan Sova sova at cesnet.cz
Tue Mar 8 05:21:05 PST 2011


	Hi.

	We are just about to launch a new metadata publication system at
eduID.cz and, of course, would prefer it to be MDX compliant ;)

I am not sure I read the draft well, hence a couple of comments

3.2.1. defines the request URL format as:

"<base_url>/entities/{ID}+{ID}+..."

i. e. the request is constructed by concatenating  the base_url value,
the literal "/entities/" and the list of IDs.

 - ( just curious, what is the purpose of inserting the string
"/entities/"?)

 - my first reading of the format would imply that the IDs should be
enclosed in {}. However, in the example in 3.2.3 the ID is used without
them. I assume the example is correct, right? If yes, the request URL
format in 3.2.1. might be better described as:

"<base_url>/entities/<ID>+<ID>+...

 where
  <base_url> is the Base URL of the server
  <ID> is a collection identifier"

or something more comprehensible ;)

	Regards
-- 
						Milan Sova
						sova at cesnet.cz
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