[jsdl-wg] application abstraction in JSDL (fwd)

[A Stephen McGough]

Personally I'd go for a "tarThis" element.

I hate these overloading of URL thingies.

steve..

Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> A Stephen McGough wrote:
>
>> Hmm, this would suggest that having the ability to extend the 
>> DataStaging element was a good idea. Yes I think you've got a point 
>> here. So that's my vote for an xsd:any in the DataStaging element. We 
>> steered away from putting "copy folder" or "untar file" in the core 
>> spec as so many DRM systems didn't support this. But it would make a 
>> useful extension set.
>
>
> FWIW, I'd do that as special URLs, perhaps like this:
>   untar:ftp://foo.bar.com/pub/data.tar
>
> It's possible to do some *really* horrible things with URL syntax. :^D
>
> Donal.
>


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