RE: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Bjoern Hoehrmann' <>, 'Ian Graham' <>
Date
2005-12-10T18:35:02
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?
> People who do this commit web architecture crime, the TAG commands
> "People making use of URIs SHOULD NOT attempt to infer properties
> of the referenced resource".

It's as well that it's a "should", and that the TAG does not have a police
force to chase up offenders. People can and will try to infer all sorts of
things from your choice of URI, and in a free society they are perfectly at
liberty to do so.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/