From 137938567f6b6ce8ec590b415a10ae9f0eb0a309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:17:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] SWHID spec: simplify and generalize escaping requirements --- docs/persistent-identifiers.rst | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/persistent-identifiers.rst b/docs/persistent-identifiers.rst index dd5a5dbe..2d40c3e0 100644 --- a/docs/persistent-identifiers.rst +++ b/docs/persistent-identifiers.rst @@ -174,11 +174,13 @@ the ``<identifier_with_context>`` entry point of the grammar: Where: -- ``<path_absolute_escaped>`` is an ``<ipath-absolute>`` from `RFC 3987`_, - where all occurrences of ``;`` and ``%`` have been percent-encoded (as - ``%3B`` and ``%25`` respectively) -- ``<url_escaped>`` is a `RFC 3987`_ IRI, where all occurrences of ``;`` and - ``%`` have been percent-encoded, as per ``<path_absolute_escaped>`` above +- ``<path_absolute_escaped>`` is an ``<ipath-absolute>`` from `RFC 3987`_, and +- ``<url_escaped>`` is a `RFC 3987`_ IRI + +in either case all occurrences of ``;`` (and ``%``, as required by the RFC) +have been percent-encoded (as ``%3B`` and ``%25`` respectively). Other +characters *can* be percent-encoded, e.g., to improve readability and/or +embeddability of SWHID in other contexts. .. _RFC 3987: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987 -- GitLab