* Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it> [2003-08-13 14:45+0200] > > Question : Cool URIs don't change, but what about cool URIrefs? > > In the context of RDF, I don't think this is an issue - the URIref isn't > expected to return something when you point a browser at it, so there's an > air gap between the reference and the thing being referred to. > > But through HTML glasses, is the expectation that an anchor will always > refer to the same information item? Through XML glasses, same question for > URIs + frag ids. Content negotiation ensures that, in the general case, they can't. #foo means something different (denotes, etc) depending on the content-type of what you get back. Also XPointer (I assume) allows you to specify any chunk of xml content; having all those refs be eternal would mean you couldn't change the doc at all. Dan > Original context: > http://dannyayers.com/archives/001708.html > > Couple of replies: > http://www.eekim.com/blog/tech/purple/linkintegrity.html > http://www.burningchrome.com:8000/~cdent/mt/archives/000193.html > > ---- > > http://dannyayers.comReceived on Wednesday, 13 August 2003 10:27:09 GMT
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