Re: Resource references/httpRange-14 (was: [Minutes] 1 July TAG teleconf)

Paul Grosso wrote:

>
> But can an application such as RDF redefine the semantic of
> an embedded URI reference in such a way that it predetermines
> (overrides) the MIME type of the referenced resource regardless
> of how the resource is labeled?
>
> And if it can't, then RDF cannot redefine how to interpret the
> fragment identifier; rather, the fragment identifier must be
> interpreted according to how the MIME type says it should.

Presumably the "referenced resource" doesn't itself have a MIME type, rather
the MIME type is assigned during the process of returning a representation
of the resource back to the user agent which is resolving a URI.

In RDF, there is no such URI resolution going on. Given an arbitrary URI
reference which is just sitting there (i.e. as a string) how can one
interpret the fragment identifier w.r.t the URI when there is no MIME type?
(Remember: the URI is not being resolved.)

Jonathan

Received on Tuesday, 2 July 2002 10:37:59 UTC