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16:18:02         cbeer_ |  in the routes config for catalog, you can tell the 
                           resources mapper what an id looks like
16:18:30         cbeer_ |  so, for openvault, we have ids like 
                           org.wgbh.mla:348bd4b1ae559bcd90abab7b114328312a4bf800
16:19:00         cbeer_ |  so my catalog route looks like
16:19:06         cbeer_ |  map.resources(:catalog,
16:19:07         cbeer_ |  [...]
16:19:11         cbeer_ |  requirements => { :id => 
/([A-Za-z0-9]|-|\.)+:(([A-Za-z0-9])|-|~|_|(%[0-9A-F]{2}))+/ }
16:19:13         cbeer_ |  )
16:19:35         cbeer_ |  your regular expression is left as an exercise for  
                           the reader