RE: DELETE Semantics in Advanced Collections

Thanks.  Good catch.  We'll fix this definition.

--Judy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stracke [mailto:francis@ecal.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 9:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: DELETE Semantics in Advanced Collections
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> "Slein, Judith A" wrote:
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> > URL Mapping
> >      An association between an absolute URL or URI and a 
> resource. It
> >      is possible for a resource to have zero, one, many, or even an
> >      infinite number of URL mappings to URLs or URIs.
> 
> Interesting epistemological point (which, like most 
> epistemological points, is
> an irrelevancy not meant to sway the discussion one way or 
> another): if it has
> zero URL mappings, is it a resource? A resource is something 
> that responds to
> methods; if there are no URLs for it, it can't receive any 
> methods, so you
> can't tell whether it would respond to them or not.  :-)
> 
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