Re: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (was RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pa ce

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote,
> I do count it as dereferencing if it attempts to
> find something and comes back with an error message.
> It makes the attempt.

Hmm ... I treat "dereference" as a success verb like find. You can _try_ 
to find something and not find it. But you can't unsuccessfully find 
something, you've just ... not found it. Ditto for dereference.

Cheers,


Miles