RE: Rationalizing the term URI

> From: uri-request@w3.org [mailto:uri-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Roy T.
> Fielding
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:15 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: uri@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Rationalizing the term URI
>
>
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> > Are we really comfortable with the fact that after "clarifying" the
> > term URI
> > we get a situation where "URI" and "absoluteURI" do *not* differ in
> > that
> > "absoluteURI" is the set of a URIs that happen to be absolute?
>
> No, because absolute-URI will not include fragment.

See? That's *exactly* what I meant.

"absoluteURI" does not allow fragments, while "URI" does. What does the fact
that fragment identifiers are allowed have to do with being "absolute" or
not? From a terminology p.o.v., this is really ugly.

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