- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:57:25 -0400
- To: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, <michaelm@netsol.com>
- Cc: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
Clark said, >If you wish to compare resources based upon URIs, an >injective (1-1, unique, etc.) function is needed from >the URI space into the resource space. > >In the case that we stick with the current specification's >definition of the namespace *as* the URI string, and not >as a resource it refers to; then the function is not >required, and hence, the injective debate is moot. This is the difference of vocabulary I mentioned in my earlier reply. You could theoretically say equally well a) namespaces are URIs, and namespace sameness is string-equality. b) namespaces are resources, and "sameness" of namespaces is string-equality of the corresponding URI. The second is the vocabulary in use on this list. The first would confuse everyone (at least me) very much! >Clark > >
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