Url

From Xcri

URI: http://xcri.org/profiles/catalog/1.1/url

Definition: A url element is used within the XCRI Course Advertising Profile to provide links to a human-readable representation of a resource.

Type: A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) conforming to the URL scheme as specified by IETF RFC 3986

Namespace: This is defined within the namespace: http://xcri.org/profiles/catalog

[edit] Example

 <course>
   <identifier>http://www.example.org/courses/1</identifier>
   ...
   <url>http://www.example.org/prospectus.jsp?course=1</url>
   ...
 </course>

[edit] Guidance Notes

When to use Url versus Identifier: Use identifier with the default encoding type in addition to the url element wherever possible. Also, use this element when the resource cannot be given a dereferencable URL as an identifier (for example, a course description generated from within a CMS, or where the identifier is a URN or HDL) to indicate a place on the provider's website where further information can be obtained, even if it is just general information about the department offering the course.

[edit] Usage

Url is used in course and provider.