- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:56:12 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Philip TAYLOR [PC87S/O-XP]" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Philip TAYLOR [PC87S/O-XP] wrote: > Liam Quinn wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Anita Hawkins wrote: > > > > > I know, I know, it's just one letter. But still, any site dealing with > > > validation by URL should be able to spell "URL"! (It's spelled "URI" on both the > > > feedback page http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html and on the main page > > > http://validator.w3.org/ in bold caps, no less) > > > > The term "URI" is correct. See <http://www.w3.org/Addressing/>. > > But is it? If I supply a URN (qua URN) to the validator rather > than a URL, I am told : > > > HTML Validation Service Results > > Sorry, this type of URI is not supported by this service. > > URIs should be in the form: > > http://validator.w3.org/ > > (There are other types of URIs, too, but only http:// URIs are currently supported by this service.) > > Gerald Oskoboiny > Last modified: Date: 2001/09/14 04:13:13 > > thus suggesting (to me, at least) that the Validator is /not/ capable of accepting URIs, but > only (a fairly restricted set of) URLs. URLs are URIs, so the Validator is capable of accepting (a fairly restricted set of) URIs. -- Liam Quinn
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