Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:33:28AM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> ... and just when I was beginning to think no one actually cared :) ...
I specifically wanted to avoid any special regex to pull data out of the
XML. Merging fields is acceptable, splitting them based on regex isn't.

> The proper form of an irc url is in my example
> "irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis" and I took it from gentoo's irc
> channel page at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml .
The '#' is debated in the URL scheme specs.
The last RFC draft I saw for it was:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04

Earlier drafts did explicitly call for dropping the '#', but that lead
to trouble distinguishing between a user with the same name as a
channel.

> That would mean limiting a single <irc></irc> field to just valid url's
> just like the <homepage></homepage> field.
We can allow 0 or more irc fields in the DTD...

> Personally I would find it quite simple to use a reg expression to
> extract a valid irc url from a mixture of written text and url.
> <irc>#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network, irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</irc>
Don't use a regex on XML. Actually connect it properly.


> Would it be better that I create 2 irc sub data types then? 
> 
> <irc>
>     <description>#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network</description>
>     <url>irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</url>
> </irc>
No, that's really bloated.

> So far it seems many/most systems do not come setup to recognize and
> take proper action for irc:// mime types like they do for http://
It's not a mime type. It's URL scheme.

Docbook/GuideXML style:

Option 1a)
<irc link="irc://irc.gentoo.org/#gentoo-guis" />
Option 1b)
<irc link="irc://irc.gentoo.org/#gentoo-guis">
  For GUI issues in Gentoo
</irc>

HTML style:

Option 2a)
<a rel="irc" href="irc://irc.gentoo.org/#gentoo-guis" />
Option 2b)
<a rel="irc" href="irc://irc.gentoo.org/#gentoo-guis">
  For GUI issues in Gentoo
</a>

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