Re: surround URLs by <URL: > ?

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Jim Taylor (JHTaylor@videodiscovery.com)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:26:40 -0800


>>> Martin Leese - OMG <mleese@omg.unb.ca> 10/26/97 03:02pm >>>
I am about to convert my URL's to

<http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faq.html>

Does anybody know if converters mung this form?
<<<

I use this form in my DVD FAQ. I think it's much cleaner and more human
readable than the official <URL:http://...> form, and as far as I know it has
been treated well by converters. One advantage over URLS without the <
and > is that long URLs can be split over a line or be followed by a period
and still be properly parsed by converters and other URL-grabbing utilities.

I maintain my FAQ in HTML (using BBEdit), so internally I create an HREF
anchor with the content the same as the HREF, then put bracket entities
around it. E.g.:

&lt;<A HREF="http://www.me.com">http://www.me.com</A>&gt;

This keeps the URLs in my preferred form when I save the file in formatted
text format (from Netscape) for posting.

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