- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:14:33 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > ``A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters that > identifies an abstract or physical resource. A URI is absolute, i.e., its meaning > does not depend on the context in which it appears.'' The first sentence is true and useful. The second sentence is false: a URI *is* absolute, but is not therefore necessarily independent of its context, as in the case of mailto: and file: URIs. -- 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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