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Added relevant QA from the wiki. Also renamed from faq.md to FAQ.md for consistency
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@mjherzog I have a question or two and a few nits.
| In its canonical form, a PURL shall not use any ':/' **scheme** | ||
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| - PURL parsers shall accept URLs such as 'pkg://' and shall ignore and |
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@mjherzog How do we decide when, as here, a violation of a "shall" rule is "fixed" (ignore and move) by a parser rather than raising an exception, and just below, where an encoded colon after 'pkg' -- which could easily be "fixed" -- is a "parsing error" that a tool can at its option "recover from" (or, the language implies, raise an exception). ?
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Good question. This is probably too much detail for this FAQ and belongs in more "formal" documentation like the How-to docs or perhaps a build/parse FAQ
Corrections and improvements to refer to documentation on the website. Signed-off-by: Michael Herzog <mjherzog@aboutcode.org>
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Added relevant QA from the wiki.
Also renamed from faq.md to FAQ.md for consistency