- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:47:03 -0800
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
> > > Here is my argument the HTTP URIs (without "#") should be understood as > > > referring to documents, not cars. > > > > I am more curious about how this artificial "without #" distinction came > > about. I think it was a mistake, one of many embodied in RDF that make > > RDF incapable of reasoning about the Web. > > I don't understand where you are coming from, here. Sorry, I am confusing two different discussion threads. > The distinction doesn't come from RDF, it comes from the URI. > That what allows RDF to talk about anything. > Which is what makes it such a wiz-bang language for reasoning > about the Web. The problem is that by not making the distinction between representations and resources, it is very hard to say that a given resource has as its representations a set of other resources that are selectively mapped according to the rules defined by yet another resource. In other words, describing the metadata relationships of a resource that isn't just a document. > I'd like you to elaborate what you meant by RDF not being able to > reason about the web, as we are obviously on different wavelengths! :-) RDF doesn't understand content negotiation, or anything like it. :( ....Roy
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