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Hi Jonathan, Jonathan said: I have a quibble with this terminology. URLs need not be location dependent. This is a function of the URL scheme or namespace. For example suppose we invent a new location independent protocol (LIP): "lip:W3C/Specifications/XSLT/Version1.0" or: "FPI: ...." This would be a location independent URL. The idea remains that URLs are URIs used to "locate" resources. If you overload the "urn" scheme with a network protocol, it really becomes a URL regardless of its definition in 2141. Didier says: There is a project called PURL (permanent URL) that uses URL to create permanent names. However, if we overload locators (URL) to do everything even the morning coffee, we'll have some confusion. Its like have a single word to designate everything. This is why we created URN. To distinguish names (URN) form locators (URL). YOu are right to say that on some browser, we can implement a name resolver as a protocol handler. But this is caused by these browsers architecture not by the URN scheme being perceived as a URL. regards Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@n... http://www.netfolder.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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