RE: Operations on containers

From: Arnaud Le Hors [mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: 19 October 2012 15:12
To: Steve Battle
Cc: 'Andy Seaborne'; public-ldp-wg@w3.org
Subject: RE: Operations on containers

>>"Steve Battle" <steve.battle@sysemia.co.uk> wrote on 10/19/2012 06:31:34
AM:
>>. 
>> e.g. The wording of ' Linked Data Platform 1.0' could be amended to read:
>> 5.6.1 If a LDPC server supports deletion of the LDPC, the server may
>> also delete contained resources whose hierarchical URIs begin with 
>> the URI of the container C". 

> Isn't one supposed to treat URIs as opaque and not parse them? 

It's my understanding that The Opacity Axiom
<http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#opaque> applies only to clients
attempting to pick apart a URI, rather than to the server.

> This may indeed be a very simple and pragmatic way of dealing with this
problem though.

Received on Friday, 19 October 2012 15:45:09 UTC