- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:34:25 +0100
- To: www-validator list <www-validator@w3.org>
On 30 Apr 2004, at 16:14, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > I am sure that these responses are very amusing, to the cognoscenti > at least, but is no-one prepared to offer a simple factual > explanation as to why the universally-understood and used URL > was apparently ditched in favour of its bastard offspring URI ? 1. All URLs are also URIs 2. The validator accepts a subset of URLs for that part of its input 3. Any subset of URLs is also a subset of URIs (as a consequence of 1) 4. Some w3c output discusses URIs which are not URLs and from what I gather: 5. For consistency, the term URI is used globally for all w3c output -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/> <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>
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