Re: Tools not supporting atom:content with @src ?

[John Panzer <jpanzer@xxxxxxx>]

An http URL is as good as any other URI as an opaque identifier, all
other things like permanence being equal.

On Thursday, June 11, 2009, Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Panzer a écrit :
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> Ross Singer wrote:
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> ... what argument are you making against using the http URI the
> identifier?  I understand if the tag URI is necessary for internal
> reasons for the application, but if the http URI is, indeed, a viable
> identifier for the resource... why not use that?
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> If the http URL is a permanent identifier that will never disappear unless the resource itself does, and will never be reassigned to some different resource, then sure.  In practice it's very hard to guarantee this.
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> Well it goes quite beyond the persistence of the value. The atom:id is an opaque string, it's a IRI, not a URL. Bypassing the difference really breaks the spirit behind it.
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> Use atom:link for that.
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> - Sylvain
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