- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:01:07 -0700
- To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, "www-tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
Nobody with any familiarity with RDF is asking for a way to do those things, since we already know how. Annotea, for example, is a live and shipping product of W3C which allows people to publish assertions about "the thirteenth character in the HTML representation", and many other resource representation formats such as SVG, for that matter. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:39 PM > To: Tim Bray; www-tag > > > I agree with Tim and Roy on the range of HTTP but I do still think that > there is a problem worth solving. > > Sometimes you really do want to make an assertion about a representation > of a resource. Mark Baker says to use Content-Location but I think there > needs to be a totally declarative way for RDF to say: "this is a > statement about the resource" and "this is a statement about the HTML > representation" and even "this is a statement about the thirteen > character in the HTML representation." If we standardized that then I > think that much of this debate would go away. > -- > Come discuss XML and REST web services at: > Open Source Conference: July 22-26, 2002, conferences.oreillynet.com > Extreme Markup: Aug 4-9, 2002, www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/
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