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Re: URLs and URIs (was XLink and mixed vocabulary design)

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• Subject: Re: URLs and URIs (was XLink and mixed vocabulary design)
• From: Henrik Martensson <henrik.martensson@b...>
• Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:29:51 +0100
• In-reply-to: <r02000200-1028-51B06A384F5011D8BABF0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>
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On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 17:05, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> henrik.martensson@b... (Henrik Martensson) writes:
> >I would be interested in seeing your take on a multiended link that has
> >no collection of exposed URIs. The XHTML 2.0 img element does not
> >qualify, I believe, because, well, it does have a collection of
> >attributes, and their values are exposed.
> 
> This point is worth addressing, whatever the context.
> 
> I have no qualms about exposing URLs.  People are familiar with URLs,
> and the notion of pointing to something using a URL is well-understood.

Agreed. (And thank you for writing "URL" and not "URI".)

> 
> I draw the line at exposing URIs when used as identifiers for purposes
> other than retrieval.  This seems to be the W3C's universal escape
> hatch, whether for namespaces, RDF, or XLink.  Unfortunately, the
> combination of opacity, confusion with URLs, and cross-referencing
> difficulty as their number increases seems to produce as much chaos as
> it resolves.

Agreed.

> 
> The distinction between URLs and URIs seems to be one worth emphasizing
> in practice, even if the standards bodies are doing their best to blur.

Very much agreed.

/Henrik

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