Re: Cool URIrefs?

* Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it> [2003-08-13 14:45+0200]
> 
> Question : Cool URIs don't change, but what about cool URIrefs?
> 
> In the context of RDF, I don't think this is an issue - the URIref isn't
> expected to return something when you point a browser at it, so there's an
> air gap between the reference and the thing being referred to.
> 
> But through HTML glasses, is the expectation that an anchor will always
> refer to the same information item? Through XML glasses, same question for
> URIs + frag ids.

Content negotiation ensures that, in the general case, they can't. #foo
means something different (denotes, etc) depending on the content-type
of what you get back.

Also XPointer (I assume) allows you to specify any chunk of xml content; 
having all those refs be eternal would mean you couldn't change the doc
at all.

Dan

> Original context:
> http://dannyayers.com/archives/001708.html
> 
> Couple of replies:
> http://www.eekim.com/blog/tech/purple/linkintegrity.html
> http://www.burningchrome.com:8000/~cdent/mt/archives/000193.html
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 13 August 2003 10:27:09 UTC