- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 100 16:22:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: timbl@w3.org (Tim Berners-Lee)
- Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
Tim Berners-Lee scripsit: > Therefore, your home page is a namespace. Wow. Now I begin to understand where you are coming from. You actually do believe, then, that a namespace can *be* a document. But if so, why can't a namespace *be* an Internet mailbox? (Since the Namespace Rec tolerates either). Presumably because you can't fetch an entity body for a mailbox. Me, I see a namespace as belonging to an entirely different ontological class from a document. I no more identify a namespace with a document than I identify a document with a brick. I suppose you would counter that accessing http://www.w3.org doesn't retrieve a document per se, but only a representation of a document.... It seems that the longer we talk, the deeper the divisions that surface. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions
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