- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:15:55 -0400
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: "www-tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: Henry S. Thompson > > Dan Connolly writes: > > > In looking around Henry's work on the XML Schema namespace, > > I discovered... > > > > [[ > > http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema > > Identifies the XML Schema Definition Language in general, without > > referring to a specific version of it. > > ]] > > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#langids > > > > It seems a little odd to use a hashless HTTP URI for a language. > > I checked for a redirect... nope... Perhaps the colloquial interpretation should be that the URI *indirectly* identifies a language, as in http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#indirect-identification > > > > $ HEAD http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema > > 200 OK > > > > So the draft proposes that http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema > > identifies both an information resource and a language. > > Well, the draft only proposes that it identify the language. Putting > a page there so the server returns 200 was a step I'm pretty sure the > editor made independently, w/o considering the ontological > implications of doing so or what our httpRange-14 finding has to say > about them. This seems to argue for a good practice of putting 303 URIs in a totally different, recognizable space, as using a 303-redirect service like http://thing-described-by.org does, so that 303 URIs aren't so easily confused with regular URIs of information resources. David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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