Jeni's Musings

Rick Jelliffe has been writing recently about PRESTO, most recently about the design of URLs based on the PRESTO system. In his latest post, Rick talks about using XPath as the basis of a URL scheme:

The Xpath for accessing a particular part’s title would be /law/part[2]/title so the PRESTO URLs would need some kind of convention.

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Now, I am not sure I understand the issues well enough to say which system for indexing is absolutely best. But I think the advantage of http://www.eg.com/law/part2/title over http://www.eg.com/law/part2/title is that it is probably a more common case that your system is interested in /law/part[2]/title rather than all titles of parts /law/part/title. But it is a matter of the particular use case and the consequent virtual schema.