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

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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.
>  
>
I read the statement as saying that the search screen is an error 
response if an appropriate patient list isn't found. Actually that 
sounds like good design to me.

Frank