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URIs != webpages (Score:1)
XML namespaces use URIs as identifiers – Uniform Resource Identifiers. URIs need not actually be resolvable to anything. Even if a URI starts with the “http:” scheme, that means nothing more than that HTTP ownership rules apply; it does not mean there has to be a page there if you actually try to dereference the URI. (HTTP ownership rules are that whoever owns the DNS for the host part of the HTTP URI can mint new HTTP URIs with that host part.)
There used to be a distinction such that UR
Re:URIs != webpages (Score:2)
I think you missed the main point of the post. The PURL, as in Persistent URL, didn't exist.
I know the difference between a URL and a URI. The fact that a URI didn't resolve didn't prompt the post. The fact that it used a supposedly persistent address did ;)
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