Re: [httpRange-14] What do HTTP URIs Identify? from Jonathan Borden on 2002-08-03 (www-tag@w3.org from August 2002)

From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 16:03:04 -0400
To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>, "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@prescod.net>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <011001c23b28$c74406d0$0201a8c0@ne.mediaone.net>

Bill de hÓra wrote:
>...That's fine; some
> DAML, or even code that embeds the scheme semantics (as web servers
> embed http semantics), will do the job.
>

DAML doesn't and OWL won't embed any special scheme semantics. Both treat
URI references as opaque names, as logical constants. There is no mechanism
to parse a URI reference to determine what it is intended to mean.

Jonathan

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