- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:40:53 +0000
- To: dgd@cs.bu.edu (David Durand)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 16:27 15/10/96 -0400, David Durand wrote: > If we specify FSI syntax, and >then restrict the FSIs to be URLs, there is a nice path to more-robust >identifiers at no more cost than we incur by implementing URLs to >begin with. There is a cost to the user: instead of entering a kind of thing they are familiar with, namely a URL, they have to enter something that they are not familiar with, namely an FSI. If we stick to URLs now, we can still support FSIs in the future: any FSI must include < and > but these two characters are not allowed in URLs. It's ridiculous to force users to type <url> at the beginning of all their URLs when it's completely unnecessary to do so. > But making it impossible to ever do the right thing and use >location independent naming seems a high price to bear. URL syntax is extensible: why can't it be used to do location-independent naming? Something like fpi://W3C/DTD/HTML_3.2 is a perfectly good URL. I can't resolve it, but then I can't resolve FPIs either. Location-independent naming is not a problem specific to XML. We should use whatever general solution gets adopted for the WWW, rather than trying to come up with a solution specifically for XML. James
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