- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:33:28 -0500
- To: wangxiao@musc.edu
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, W3C-TAG Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>
>>>The URI still identifies the poem, since I say it does >>>(presuming I've registered example.com). The HTML pages are still >>>representations of the poem >> >>Yes. The actual HTML page is a representation-3's of the poem. But >>then what I GET back from that HTML page is a representation-2 of a >>representation-3 of the poem, not a representation-2 of the poem. >>The poem itself is an abstraction, existing only in some Platonic >>space of Pure Texts. >Exactly. >>Those aren't the kind of thing one can put at an http endpoint. If >>you want to denote the *actual poem*, you should use 303 or #. >But here I disagree. I should have said, IF you are going to conform to httpRange-14, THEN you should use 303 or #. >what is at the end of HTTP endpoint is representation-2 of that URI >that finally emit 200. As you just said, representation-2 is never >the same representation-3. It doesn't matter how you chain it, you >never get the (3). Agreed. Except in Jasper Fforde books :-) Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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