URI Templates

From Well Designed Urls WiKi

As of this writing, URI Templates are a draft proposal of the IETF that allow you to, among other things, specify rules for URL Construction.

URL Templates use braces to denote template variable, for example:

http://www.mycarsite.com/{make}/{model}/{year}/

Assuming make=toyota, model=4runner and year=1999 you get:

http://www.mycarsite.com/toyota/4runner/1999/

URI Templates are also potentially very useful for specifying URL Rewrite Rules in a format simpler than Regular Expressions that mere-mortals can actually understand and use.

Specification Authors

• Joe Gregorio
• DeWitt Clinton
• Mark Nottingham
• Marc Hadley
• Dave Orchard
• James Snell

Resources

• About URI Templates
• URI Template Draft Proposal, Expires Expires: May 1, 2007
• Mark Nottingham's URL Templates Javascript File

Advocacy

• Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0