On 13/7/05 5:17 PM, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should clarify that I defer this to the particular relationship > type. In an atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'alternate'], I do absolutely expect > the @href to be dereferencable. What I don¹t see any reason for > is to mandate that @href must always be dereferencable, > regardless of whether the semantics of the type in @rel would > require that or not. I've been thinking .. the attribute is @href, not @uri. That¹s Hypertext REFerence, not Universal Resource Identifier. Ignoring the process for a moment ... could we have @href and then also @idref ... then when we mean to provide a dereferenceable uri we can put it in @href, and when we want to provide an ID reference we can put it in @idref. We can even put both into a link, and if the @href returns a 404 or otherwise indicate it is not the thing being sought, then we could try querying an ID resolver to find the new location. e.
