Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?

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Robert Koberg <>
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Michael Kay <>, 'XML Developers List' <>
Date
2005-12-12T19:36:31Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?
Michael Kay wrote:
>>   org/stjude/cris/totxv/patient
>>
>>might identify the class of patients enrolled on the TOTXV protocol
>>here at St. Jude. Whether this in itself returns something useful is
>>up to the implementer. In our case, if no specific instance is
>>identifiable, we might default to bringing up a search screen (or a
>>list) allowing one to find (or pick) an instance.
> 
> 
> Either it identifies a class of patients or it identifies a search screen.
> If it identifies both then it's ambiguous, which we surely can't tolerate.
> 
> I get the feeling this whole edifice is built on sand.

Did anybody else just picture Dr. Kay with an afro wrapped in a sweaty 
headband while playing guitar?

jimi!


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