Re: Proposal for 'URIs everywhere'

Mark Birbeck wrote:
>
> I believe it would be useful to say that the following will *never*
> become a URI:
>
>   [a:b]
>
> My feeling is that in this situation the author is saying that they
> explicitly want to use the CURIE 'a:b' with the mapping 'a'. And if
> the mapping 'a' doesn't exist, then something has gone wrong, and they
> would prefer it to be ignored altogether.
>
> I'm seeing this as a useful 'strict' mode, that automated systems
> might want to use, but hand-coders would almost certainly avoid.
>
> Any thoughts?
I agree with this.  A lot.

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Received on Friday, 27 November 2009 18:14:52 UTC