Re: Mistaken identity?

> Right, and you have demonstrated that it can be useful to try to 
> dereference a namespace URI, and sometimes to try to dereference URIs 
> used as identifiers for rdf resources.  I don't deny that at all, but 
> it's different from saying that a namespace _denotes_ the dereferenced 
> document (namespace URIs denote nothing outside themselves)

I don't claim that a URI (whether a namespace name or not) denotes the
derefernced document, and strongly disagree with those that do. I do claim
though that if dereferencing is successful then the document returned should be
some sort of representation of the thing identified (in this case a
namespace).

, or that a 
> URI used as an rdf resource automatically and always _denotes_ the thing 
> pointed to.

An identifier that doesn't identify the identifee is no identifier.

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