- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:04:25 +0100
- To: "www-rdf-interest@w3.org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> Right, and you have demonstrated that it can be useful to try to > dereference a namespace URI, and sometimes to try to dereference URIs > used as identifiers for rdf resources. I don't deny that at all, but > it's different from saying that a namespace _denotes_ the dereferenced > document (namespace URIs denote nothing outside themselves) I don't claim that a URI (whether a namespace name or not) denotes the derefernced document, and strongly disagree with those that do. I do claim though that if dereferencing is successful then the document returned should be some sort of representation of the thing identified (in this case a namespace). , or that a > URI used as an rdf resource automatically and always _denotes_ the thing > pointed to. An identifier that doesn't identify the identifee is no identifier. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
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