Re: Are we elements or animals? (was: Use of fragment identifiers in XML) from Michael Day on 2002-11-01 (www-tag@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:20:33 +1100 (EST)
To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
Cc: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211011719080.20898-100000@lorien.yeslogic.com>

> Er, they do. That's what I just pointed out. According to the URI spec 
> (and its references I cited) http://www.example.org/#Dog identifies the 
> XML element (<rdf:Description rdf:about="#Dog">...</rdf:Description>). 
> And according to the RDF spec that URI identifies a class. Which is it?

Doesn't http://www.example.org/#Dog actually identify the element:

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="Dog">...</rdf:Description>

contained in the RDF/XML representation returned from 
http://www.example.org/ ?

(That last question mark is not part of the URI, by the way :)

Michael

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