- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:13:10 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
At 2:42 PM +0900 11/15/03, Dan Connolly wrote: >"A link is built from two pieces: > a base URI > a URI reference" > -- http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2003/webarch-20031111/#links > >I think URI references are an irrelevant detail >when discussing links. > >URI references are shorthand for URIs in general, >not just in links. I seem to recall that URI references can have fragment identifiers and URIs can't. If that's correct, this is the crucial distinction here. >And the fact that URIs have a shorthand form isn't >very interesting when discussing links. It's not the shorthand form that's so relevant here. It's the possibility of a fragment ID. I think the existing text is fine. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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