Re: Markup Spread on Multiple Pages

To some extent we've inherited URL/URI terminology woes from HTML5, via
Microdata. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jun/0436.html

Dan

Excerpting from http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html#terminology-0

"
2.6.1 Terminology

A URL is a string used to identify a resource.

A URL <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html#url> is a valid URL if at
least one of the following conditions holds:

   -

   The URL <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html#url> is a valid URI
   reference [RFC3986]<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/references.html#refsRFC3986>
   .
   -

   The URL <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html#url> is a valid IRI
   reference and it has no query component.
[RFC3987]<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/references.html#refsRFC3987>
   -

   The URL <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html#url> is a valid IRI
   reference and its query component contains no unescaped non-ASCII
   characters. [RFC3987]<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/references.html#refsRFC3987>
   -

   The URL <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/urls.html#url> is a valid IRI
   reference and the character
encoding<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/infrastructure.html#document's-character-encoding>
of
   the URL's Document <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/dom.html#document> is
   UTF-8 or a UTF-16
encoding<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/infrastructure.html#a-utf-16-encoding>
   . [RFC3987] <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/references.html#refsRFC3987>"






On 31 October 2012 16:12, Robert Schroeder <bobsc@charter.net> wrote:

>   VERY Confusing.
> *Since when is “urn:isbn:0-330-34032-8” a URL?*
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-microdata-20121025/#global-identifiers-for-items
>