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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 08:26:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Terry Allen <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: [URN] text/uri-list registration
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As a nonprogrammer I'm probably missing the obvious, but in the
interest of clarity, why

>2) The first non-comment line shall be an integer giving the number of
   URIs in the list.

so the parser of a uri-list can know when it will have reached
the end of the list?  to allow error recovery if the uri-list is
malformed?  something else?

Regards,
    Terry Allen    Fujitsu Software Corp.    [e-mail]
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