- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:33:50 +0100
- To: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Am Mittwoch, 18.12.02, um 02:30 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Tim Bray: > > At several points during yesterday's TAG call, Dan claimed repeatedly > that URIs a and b are equivalent if (strcmp(a,b)==0) equal, otherwise > not, end of story. If we believe this, we can discard the uri-comp > draft entirely right now and I won't put any more work into editing > it. Do we believe this? -Tim > As the draft itself points out, there are applications such as browsers and crawlers which need better equivalence than strcmp. RFC 2396 says that scheme names are case insensitiv, so strcmp produces false negatives, without even going into scheme specific comparisions. As a small example of strcmp shortcomings: XML namespaces seem to work fine with their definition of equivalence. However the current efforts to make "namespace documents" accessible on the web will have to cope with the false negatives of strcmp. One will have a hard time providing different documents for "http://example.org/myns" and "http://EXAMPLE.ORG/myns". //Stefan
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