either one should work; url encoding of the "KEV context object" is governed by encoding rules for URIs in general- any character MAY be url encoded; Very strictly speaking, the characters ":" and "/" are required to be URL encoded, but in practice, leaving them unencoded should be harmless.
I'll look at the COinS spec to see where this might be clarified At 5:09 PM +0000 12/11/06, jrochkind wrote: >Hi all. > >The ocoins.info "spec" contains an example which includes: > >&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal > >When I first saw that, I thought, gee, shouldn't that be >escaped/encoded somehow? If I were creating an SAP1 KEV context object, >I believe (I confess escaping/encoding still confuses me) would need to >encode this like: > >&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal > >If I'm putting an SAP1 KEV context object into my COinS, then I'd think >I'd leave it alone just like that---except the example makes different >choices about escaping. > >Nowhere in the ocoins.info "spec" is the word escape or escaping >mentioned, or encode/encoding in the context of this question. So it's >a bit confusing what is supposed to be reccommended/required here. All >we have is the example to look at. > >Can we get some clarity as to how a COinS should be encoded/escaped, >and maybe put it on ocoins.info? To me, again, a COinS should probably >be encoded just like a SAP1 KEV, and then nobody needs to specify >anything else. Or at least that should be an option that applications >are required to support (it's been suggested to me that Zotero may not >support escaped COinS). If you aren't going to say "just like" >something else, then I guess ocoins.info needs to spell out how things >should be escaped/encoded itself. One way or another, the current >vagueness and spec only by one example seems to be leading to >confusion? > >Thanks, >Jonathan > > > -- Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly Informatics Division [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 http://www.openly.com/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gcs-pcs-list" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gcs-pcs-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
