- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:40:11 -0400
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, ashok.malhotra@oracle.co, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2008-04 -03, at 18:35, ashok malhotra wrote: > > Right! So, we agree that resources can have multiple representations. > If the resource were a horse, you may have a picture of the horse, a > text description of the horse, etc. No. A representation of X in the architecture is a digital encoding of the content of X. A horse doesn't have information content. I think you would say "There can be many documents associated with a horse: you may have a picture of the horse, a text description of the horse, etc." > > It would be useful to provide a method to find all representations > (or representation types) of a resource. > Then, some form of (extended) content negotiation could be used to > get at a particular representation. Content Negotiation is ONLY for different encodings/languages/versions of the same information. Tim
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