Re: The range of the HTTP dereference function

At 06:41 PM 3/20/02 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>The URI spec tells us that the significance of the URI with the hash
>on is a function of the language of  document you get when you
>dereference the thing before the hash.  Therefore, for an RDF document,
>RDF defines what the thing *with* the hash identifies (anything)

This feels to me like a confusion between the thing referenced and the 
thing doing the referencing:

   RDF-doc  --references-->  something#fragment

As I understand the web principles, the meaning of #fragment here is not 
dependent on the (MIME) content of 'RDF-doc', but of 'something'.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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