RE: URI for language identifiers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jan Algermissen [mailto:algermissen@acm.org]
> Sent: 02 April, 2003 12:05
> To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere)
> Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: Re: URI for language identifiers
> 
> 
> Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ext Jan Algermissen [mailto:algermissen@acm.org]
> > > Sent: 02 April, 2003 10:46
> > > To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere)
> > > Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> > > Subject: Re: URI for language identifiers
> > >
> > >
> > > Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > But if the URI denotes two things, how do you differentiate
> > > > between statements made about one versus the other?
> > >
> > > The URI does not denote two things. There are just two kinds
> > > of properties
> > > on topics that use URIs as values. The semantics of the 
> properties are
> > > different.
> > >
> > > The whole thing is different because in topic maps, you have
> > > an unlimited
> > > number of possibilities to identify what a given topic represents.
> > 
> > Are you denoting topics using URIs or not? 
> 
> TMs use property/value pairs to identify what they represent. The URI
> allown is simply not enough.

Well, I think that pretty much sums it up then. URIs cannot unambiguously
denote resources on their own in XTM. Pity.

Patrick

Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2003 05:22:40 UTC