- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 19 Feb 2002 15:21:42 -0500
- To: uri@w3.org
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:25, Al Gilman wrote: > ** summary: > > URIs and URI-references are different classes. Each has its application. > > Fragments are resource-representation-type-defined. Comparing #fragment > subexpressions "pointing into" resources without determining the [presumed] > type on which hypothesis one is comparing is erroneous. > > URI semantics is federal. The URI class defers lots of things such as case > sensitivity to the several schemes. The scheme may defer still futher. Don't > look for URI-wide rules as to when tokens coughed up by the URI-common syntax > are part of case-insensitive namespaces. The rules already tell you it 'taint > so. Thanks for the detailed review! I've concluded that while I may use this class in the future, it'll likely be wrapped by a class I create more directly focused on the use of URIs as namespace identifiers. I suspect I'll have a better chance of balancing design choices that way. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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