- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 12:12:31 -0400
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- CC: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>, xml-uri@w3.org
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > It happens that the relative URI-references have the property of > invariance under the opeartion of making a copy in a new space > of a set of resources which only have links between them. > And I agree that people use that a whole lot. But that is a very > specific operation. And the resulting links are to new resources, > not to the old ones, so there was no identity preserved. Well, consider sharing (via links or symlinks or multiple servers) rather than copying What then? > Our own recommendation. A lot of people worked on it and a lot of people > missed the creeping inconsistency. > Many people have propoes on this list and others deprocating relative > URIs for namespaces. If you do that then string comparison can be > done with or without absolutizing. i can't see any other way out of this > mess. Deprecating is not enough for the Infoset, which has to have definite answers. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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