Re: About "dereferencing" 2

Dear friends..
  I'm in traslation Group since 2 of 3 days. I've also read some letters, and
  i think to have a idea to translate correctly this sentence.

  My mail, it should be arrived in late.. but I don't know the rules

  Who can help me to keep clear? Thanks 4 your Times!

  Alex Rivoltella

Martin J. Duerst wrote:

> At 11:07 98/03/12 +0100, Michele Diodati wrote:
> > Dear translators,
> >
> > in our translation of HTML 4.0 into Italian we are experimenting some
> > difficulties about the following paragraph:
> >
> > |line 418 - file: "links.html"
>
> Please don't use line numbers for referring to HTML documents :-).
>
> > |type = content-type [CI]
> > |     When present, this attribute specifies the content type of a piece of
> > |content, for example, the result of dereferencing a
> > |     resource. Content types are defined in [MIMETYPES].
> >
> > Can you explain in other words this sentence: "the result of dereferencing
> > a resource"? What does "dereferencing" mean?
>
> It's an "educated" way to refer to what happens when you take an
> URI (a reference) and turn it into the thing it references
> (generically called a resource). So strictly speaking, the text
> above is a bit incorrect, as it's not the resource, but the
> reference to the resource, that is dereferenced.
>
> Regards,   Martin.

Received on Thursday, 12 March 1998 11:11:52 UTC