- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:54:17 -0600
- To: uri@w3.org
Another closely related topic is the way the XML specs use the term "URI" when they actually mean "a Unicode string that's converted to a URI by escaping." c.f. RE: Use of [ and ] in URIs From: Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com) Date: Mon, Oct 04 1999 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/1999OctDec/0000.html Dan Connolly wrote: > > I have recently spent a considerable amount of time studying > the URI spec > [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt > and I discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that it > defines the terms "URI reference" and "absolute URI" very precisely, > but > (a) it doesn't define the term "URI", syntactically (!!!) > and > (b) it doesn't give a term for an > absolute-URI-with-optional-fragment-id , i.e. the result of combining > a URI reference with an absolute URI. [...] -- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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