- From: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:33:23 -0700
- To: Benja Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@gmx.de>
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Benja Fallenstein wrote: > Hei, > > Garret Wilson wrote: > >> You're right---some resources may be in both sets, but the result is >> perhaps worse---there's no way to know from the framework which >> resources are the same. I could be talking about "Garret Wilson" and >> "uri:x-people-garretwilson", but are those the same resources? Who knows? > > > Now that was a decidedly bad example ;-) > > Someone who assigns a URI like "uri:x-people-garretwilson" to denote not > a person, but the *character string* G-a-r-r-e-t-_-W-i-l-s-o-n is doing > something really misleading :-) Nope, sorry Benja, you misread the example. I'm referring to the resource denoted by the lexical form "Garret Wilson". Here's the whole thing again: <rdf:Description rdf:about="uri:x-example-document"> <dc:creator>Garret Wilson</dc:creator> </rdf:Description> "...But if I talk about the resource identified by the literal, "Garret Wilson," why can't I use a URI as well? ... I could be talking about 'Garret Wilson' and 'uri:x-people-garretwilson', but are those the same resources? Who knows?" Never ever did I say that "uri:x-people-garretwilson" denoted a character string. Similarly Ora Lassila didn't use the URI "http://www.w3.org/staffId/85740" to refer to the character string "Ora Lassila" back in 1999 (see http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/#basic ). All the best, Garret
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