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A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of  characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. An URI can be a [[URL]] or an [[URN]]. When in doubt on whether to use URI, URL or URN, use URI, which includes all of them.
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of  characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. An URI can be a [[URL]] or an [[URN]]. Every URL is a URI, abstractly speaking, but not every URI is a URL.

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A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. An URI can be a URL or an URN. Every URL is a URI, abstractly speaking, but not every URI is a URL.