Actually, if you take a look at RFC 2396, which outlines the structure of a URI, you'll note that mailto: and news: are exceptions to the general rule regarding schemes. While Section 3 does say "The URI syntax does not require that the scheme-specific-part have any general structure or set of semantics which is common among all URI", I think you'll notice that the next sentence offers a bit of advice:

However, a subset of URI do share a common syntax for representing hierarchical relationships within the namespace. This "generic URI" syntax consists of a sequence of four main components:
     <scheme>://<authority><path>?<query>
each of which, except <scheme>, may be absent from a particular URI.

Since the prefix tags are meant to fit within our own namespace, I don't see any harm in keeping them consistent with the majority of generally-supported schemes listed in Section 1.3.

After all, if you're used to typing "://" as part of your UR(I|L|N)'s, why invent an alternate syntax for our local schemes? Consistency can be a good thing, after all.

So, I vote 'No.' Sorry...

--f

P.S. BTW, Appendix B of that same RFC offers an interesting discussion for anyone trying to use regular expressions to parse URI's. Of course, I imagine that URI-1.17 (among others) would be helpful, too. :-)

In reply to Re: Monastery URLs don't need double slashes! by footpad
in thread Monastery URLs don't need double slashes! by chip

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.