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The REST in PRESTO

By Rick Jelliffe
October 10, 2008

Roy Fielding's characterizations of what REST is about, made discussing CMIS, is helpful for understanding what PRESTO is about.

US Library of Congress makes a step towards PRESTO

By Rick Jelliffe
October 10, 2008

The US Library of Congress Thomas project is making user-friendly, structured URLs available as permanent aliases for its legislation. I have been pushing a similar approach, but taking it further, in the PRESTO approach.

Can a URL contain an XPath?

By Rick Jelliffe
August 13, 2008

It seems that the answer is, yes, a URL can contain an XPath, providing it has been delimited in certain ways. Why would we want to do this? The trouble with using fragment identifiers or queries in URLs (? and #) is that the resources identified become, in effect, terminal leaves. You cannot merely add more paths underneath, as far as I can see, to drill down further.

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