Re: The range of the HTTP dereference function

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org>
To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>; <danc@w3.org>; "'www-tag'"
<www-tag@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: The range of the HTTP dereference function


> At 06:41 PM 3/20/02 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> >The URI spec tells us that the significance of the URI with the hash
> >on is a function of the language of  document you get when you
> >dereference the thing before the hash.  Therefore, for an RDF document,

as that referred to

> >RDF defines what the thing *with* the hash identifies (anything)
>
> This feels to me like a confusion between the thing referenced and the
> thing doing the referencing:
>
>    RDF-doc  --references-->  something#fragment

I meant
             whatever ---references--> myRDFdoc#fradid

> As I understand the web principles, the meaning of #fragment here is not
> dependent on the (MIME) content of 'RDF-doc', but of 'something'.

Precicely, or in the way I meant, it is speendent on the RDF doc.

> #g
>
>
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> Graham Klyne
> <GK@NineByNine.org>
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