Re: Organisational and 10^3 address books

[Dan Mosedale]

Paul Sandoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>       Thanks! I see the light.
>       I was stuck in some precipitous local minima
>       of thought.

Heh; I like this turn of phrase.  :-)

>       Copying somthing similar to ldap filter is
>       a good idea:
>       
>       uri             = scheme ":" path [ "?" query ]
>       query           = "(" queryexpression ")"
>       querycomp       = and | or | not | querycondition
>       and             = "&" queryexpression
>       or              = "|" queryexpression
>       not             = "!" query
>       queryexpression = 1*query
>       querycondition  = attr "," condition "," value
>       condition       = equal | notequal |
>                         lessthan | greaterthan |
>                         beginswith | endswith |
>                         contains | doesnotcontain |
>                         soundslike | regex |
>       equal           = "="
>       notequal        = "!="
>       lessthan        = "lt"
>       greaterthan     = "gt"
>       beginswith      = "bw"
>       endswith        = "ew"
>       contains        = "c"
>       doesnotcontain  = "!c"
>       soundslike      = "~="
>       regex           = "regex"                                         
>       attr            = *(alphanum | escaped)
>       value           = *(alphanum | escaped)
>       escaped         = from RFC 2396
>       alphanum        = from RFC 2396
>       
>       This conforms to RFC 2396.

At first read, it looks good to me.

>       Should be 'reasonably' easy to parse so 
>       i think i can do it fairly quickly.

Cool!

>       There may be value in having a Dublin Core data
>       source which could read DC meta data values from
>       HTML data.

Yeah, if the Dublin Core starts to really catch on, it
would be nice to be able to drive XUL templates using it
automatically.

Dan
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