- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:56:27 -0400
- To: "Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
"Eve L. Maler" wrote: > If you're serious about "points to," then despite your urgings when we did > the original Namespaces work, we should not have used URIs for namespace > names because pointing to something was "not a goal." *sigh* A URI *identifies* a resource. A resource may be instantiated by zero, one, or many entity bodies. Thus the URI http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/scritchifschisted identifies a resource with zero entity bodies: attempts to fetch the entity body will fail. (You cannot fetch a resource, because resources are abstractions; you can only fetch the corresponding entity bodies). -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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