- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:30:52 +0100
- To: "'Anthony B. Coates'" <abcoates@TheOffice.net>
- Cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Hi Tony, <snip/> > It sounds more like you need a MIME type or HTTP header to indicate that a URI > dereferences a concept, rather than a representation. At least user agents > would know what was happening then, and could take more sophisticated action. So I think the syntactic device that TBL uses to make this distinction is the use of the '#' character at the end of namespace names. The UA can then be programmed with this distinction in mind. I think this explains why TBL is comfortable with the position that http URI identify documents and SHOULD/MUST NOT be used to identify real-world concrete things like particular people or their cars or abstract concepts. And why he is comfortable to use http URI+fragments to identify such concrete real-world things and abstract concepts. In the namespaces case the unadorned URI would identify the document. URI+nullFragment would identify the namespace. I'm not saying I agree with Tim's postion, but I think I'm coming close(r) to understanding it. > Cheers, > Tony. > ==== > Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect > mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net > MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language) > http://www.mddl.org/ Cheers, Stuart Williams
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