Namespace document and representations was Re: Arch doc: meaning of term 'representation'?

• From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
• Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:32:35 -0400
• To: "WWW TAG" <www-tag@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <02ba01c222c0$0150c150$0a2e249b@nemc.org>

> I would say:
>
> "A representation of a resource is a serialization of some description of
> the resource. The representation may be full fidelity, i.e. a complete
> description, or it may be partial, i.e. describes some aspect of the
> resource. The interpretation of any such representation is determined by
its
> MIME type."
>

One could then safely say that a namespace document is a _representation_ of
a namespace, and avoid confusion.

Jonathan

Received on Wednesday, 3 July 2002 14:38:04 UTC