RE: Documents, Cars, Hills, and Valleys

> In some situations it makes sense to think of representation as
> transitive (ie. if the URI represents a document which in turn
> represents todays news, then the URI represents todays news), in which

No it doesn't make sense.  Please give me one useful example where this
is useful and solves consumer needs and couldn't be better done with
tdb.

> an abstract namespace or nothing at all. If they do represent an
> abstract namespace, then why would putting a retrievable document at
> the end of them defeat their original non-retrievable reference?

No, what "non-retrievable reference" use case did a namespace URL ever
have?  I have actually never seen anyone making assertions about a
namespace, and if they did, I would see no reason why they wouldn't just
use tdb with the namespace URL.

Received on Wednesday, 10 April 2002 14:47:15 UTC