- From: Anthony B. Coates <abcoates@TheOffice.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 21:31:27 +0100
- To: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
** Reply to message from "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org> on Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:51:35 -0400 With regard to ---- Editor's note: While people agree that URIs identify resources (per [RFC2396]), there is not yet consensus that absolute URI references with fragment identifies may be used to identify resources. Some people contend that an absolute URI reference with a fragment identifier identifies a portion of a representation. ---- I would venture that a URI identifies a resource, but that a complex resource might contain portions that people equate with individual "things" or "concepts". In that view, the resource would be a compound resource. So, for example http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema refers to a compound resource (if any) that identifies the whole of W3C XML Schema, while http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int identifies the integer datatype within W3C XML Schema. I think this view would also work for RDF & Topic Maps, where fragments are used to identify individual items within a compound resource. Or have I missed something completely here? Cheers, Tony. ==== Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language) http://www.mddl.org/
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