- From: Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:45:29 -0700 (PDT)
- To: XML-uri@w3.org
[tim berners-lee writes]:
> It is like having a standard trailer hitch on the back of the car,
> but adding an ingenious device which protrudes backwards to prevent
> the trailer from being a boat trailer, on the basis that the chance
> of wanting to tow a boat is < 10%!
Rather, this process has been like the famous surrealist painting by
Magritte.
The painting, of a pipe, is entitled "This is not a pipe."
(Cf, "The namespace name, to serve its intended purpose, should have
the characteristics of uniqueness and persistence. It is not a goal
that it be directly usable for retrieval of a schema (if any exists).")
We seem not merely to be changing the title of the painting to "This
*is* a pipe", but to be setting fire to the very canvas itself to test
our assertion!
S.
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<? "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations ?>
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