[gmpi] Re: low level API - Abstract Factory summary
- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:37:27 +0000
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:51:14 -0800, Frederick Umminger wrote:
>
> I know what a URL is. I do not think the web has ignored localization issues.
Not all URIs are URLs.
It's true that URIs are not localised, but the resource that you retreive
by derefencing the URI /can/ be localised.
They can be versioned, if we specify it, eg. the local name part of the
URI can be speciifed to have a certain parsable form to extract the
version number.
Regardless, these are features that GUIDs dont posses, at all. You can
argue that some people can't read URIs in a human sense (and I dont
suggest they should be exposed to users anyway), but theres no content in
a GUID, and they cannot be dereferenced, except through a central
(well-known) resource, and thats far from ideal.
- Steve
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