RE: working around the identity crisis

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:

> If you're going to restrict each term to being
> defined by a single document, where that document
> only describes one term, then why not just
> have a URI for the document and URI for the term
> and use conneg to relate them. E.g.
>
> http://my.org/knowlegebase/chemistry/water      the concept
> http://my.org/knowlegebase/chemistry/water.html HTML representation
> http://my.org/knowlegebase/chemistry/water.rdf  RDF representation
> http://my.org/knowlegebase/chemistry/water.txt  text representation
> http://my.org/knowlegebase/chemistry/water.jpg  JPG representation

Of course if you are -this- http inclined (and you must have a protocol
like ftp or http which at the very least have some assumptions on the
hierarchy - which may not be warrented, say, for a z39.50 URI) then note
that you can also use:

	http://my.org/knowlegebase/chemistry/water
	Accept: text/plain
...
and/or use a multiple choise response as a server.

Dw.