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RE: URIs harmful

• To: <jborden@a...>
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:17:37 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: URIs harmful

> clear: no Semantic Web systems require parsing of a URI in order to
draw

Of course.

> the "Semantic Web" in no way depends on being able to parse URIs. You
are
> essentially claiming the opposite, but fail to support your claims
with

I am in no way suggesting that semantic agents will parse URIs.

However, you can't stop *people* from noticing something in a URL like
isbn: or http: and thinking "this must be a book, and that must be a
hypermedia server".

When someone yells "FIRE" in a crowded room, you should expect people to
assume that you mean there is a fire.  In fact, you should *encourage*
them to; it's only prudent.

They didn't have to "parse" the word or look it up in a dictionary to
make their assumption, and maybe you didn't really even mean that there
is a fire.  But that's what people will assume, so you might as well
accept the fact.

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