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Re: Clarifying what a URL identifies (Four Uses of a URL)

From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:23:38 -0500
Message-Id: <200301231223.h0NCNcF22546@wadimousa.hawke.org>
To: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>
cc: "David Booth" <dbooth@w3.org>, www-archive@w3.org


> If you are going to use the (capitalized) term "Semantic Web", can you limit
> yourselves to discussing the layers of the SW that have been concretely
> defined i.e. the set of WDs produced by the RDF Core WG and the set of WDs
> produced by the WebOnt WG?
> 
> In none of these documents do the problems you suggest with ambiguities in
> URIs exist. For example, in none of these documents is there a shred of
> confusion between a URI e.g.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/
> 
> and the string of characters that forms the URI i.e. 'h' 't' 't' 'p' ':' '/'
> '/' ...
> 
> seriously ...
> 
> Jonathan

[moved to www-archive]

David's just trying to be complete there.  In suggesting solutions to
how to disambiguate among his middle-two columns (which is a real
problem in the current drafts), perhaps people can get additional
insight by seeing how one typically disambiguates against the first
column (with quotation marks, etc).

    -- sandro
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