- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:59:48 +0100
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
David Carlisle wrote, > Dan Connolly wrote, > > Either namespaces are web resources in every sense of the > > word, and hence any sort of URI reference the author > > chooses may be used to point to them, or not. > > Is a URI reference a web resource (the URI refererence > itself, not the resource it points at) ? I must admit that this (that a URI reference is a resource in it's own right) is just about the only way I can make sense of some of Dan's statements. If we accepted that, then we could guarantee that a URL would identify a resource in one sense: it'd name a resource-location (some kind of abstract entity, I suppose). But that's not the sense of 'identify' that we're used to ... it's certainly quite different from the sense in which a URL identifies an independent resource which (might, transiently) be _at_ a resource-location. I don't think that reifying locations in this way would necessarily be a bad thing, it's just that I'm struggling to see its utility ... it certainly doesn't help us when it comes to schema retrieval. Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England msabin@cromwellmedia.com http://www.cromwellmedia.com/
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