URIs/IRIs: Identity


Identity (TAG issue URIEquivalence-15)

  1. Two IRIs are identical if they match character-by-character
  2. Two IRIs are identical if converted to URIs, they match
Syntax or infoset?
xlink:href='http://www.w3.org' == xlink:href='http://www.w3.org'
Escaping of non-reserved bytes:
http://www.w3.org/XML =?= http://www.w3.org/XM%4C =?= http://www.w3.org/XM%4c

Equivalence supported by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt, section 2.3, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt, section 2.2, and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1630.txt, but not necessarily in practice.