Murray Altheim wrote:
[I note a mistake in that I'm trying to register the xmldb URL scheme,
not protocol. Low on caffeine this evening...]
Another mistake. I really do need some coffee, or maybe just go to bed...
In URLs, the initial token preceding the ':' is called the protocol
and is used to determine the protocol for file transfer. In URIs
that token is called the scheme, and is used to indicate the schema
of the rest of the URI's characters, i.e., how they are to be parsed
and interpreted.
One thing I might mention is that beyond having *functional* URLs
for xmldb, it would allow me to use a ton of existing code without
trying to rewrite it to use both URLs and URIs.
Murray
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