Re: Very rough draft of TAG finding on self-describing documents

I wonder what is the definition of "self" in the self-describing 
document?  An XML document would not be "self-describing" without the 
MIME type being transferred.

Also, a resource is defined by having a URI.  Then, the interpretation 
of a resource can certainly be written in a different document under the 
same URI by way of content negotiation.  For instance, the RDF document 
of URI can be used to offer  the interpretation of a binary stream under 
the same URI.  Would this be called self-describing?

Xiaoshu

Received on Monday, 26 February 2007 22:17:47 UTC