Re: [xml-dev] URLs and URIs (was XLink and mixed vocabulary design)

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Tim Bray <>
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Henrik Martensson <>
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2004-01-25T21:25:15Z
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Re: [xml-dev] URLs and URIs (was XLink and mixed vocabulary design)
On Jan 25, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Henrik Martensson wrote:

>> I have no qualms about exposing URLs.  People are familiar with URLs,
>> and the notion of pointing to something using a URL is 
>> well-understood.
>
> Agreed. (And thank you for writing "URL" and not "URI".)

Well, there's nothing wrong with using URL as long as you are clear 
exactly what you mean.  This is made a bit more difficult by the fact 
that there's no normative definition which is still in effect, last 
time I checked.  I believe that what you mean is something like 
"HTTP-scheme URIs which are normally dereferenceable unless something's 
wrong."  But since there is room for confusion, you should probably say 
so explicitly. -Tim