- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:45:42 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Beton, Richard wrote: > in pigeon summary, URI = URL + URN Surely, but in practical terms URN = 0, so what does that give to us? There's little reason to use the theoretical URI concept for practical purposes like a validator's user interface or messages. Even HTML specifications don't use the terminology in a technically correct way. They say (e.g. in describing the permitted values of the href attribute) "URI" when they really mean "URI reference". The authoritative specification, RFC 2396, makes a clear distinction between the two. We can live with this situation. We could also live (better) with the "URL" term being used by the validator. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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