IRIs

• Internationalized Resource Identifiers

• Not limited to ASCII

• For example,

  • http://www.example.fr/présidence

  • http://www.example.he/λεξικό

• Percent escapes are not decoded when comparing. These are all different:

  • http://www.example.fr/présidence

  • http://www.example.fr/pr%a9sidence

  • http://www.example.fr/pr%A9sidence

• XML escapes are decoded. These are the same:

  • xmlns:λεξ="http://www.example.he/λεξικό"

  • xmlns:λεξ="http://www.example.he/λεξικό"

  • xmlns:λεξ="http://www.example.he/λεξικό"