- From: Bill dehOra <wdehora@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:11:06 +0100
- To: "'Dan Connolly'" <connolly@w3.org>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Cc: XML-uri@w3.org
>> Do you really? What resource exactly does the URI >> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml identify? > >The one identified by that URI. It's not clear to me >that you need to know more about this resource other >than that it can be identified by that URI. > >If you do, can you explain why? A lot of people would assume that you must have a resource in order to propose an identifier to identify it. It's fairly common-sense way to think about it: you create an identifier _for_ a resource. But URIs seem to allow a resource to come into being by creating an URI identifier: you create a resource _for_ an identifier. So, if I type this: http://www.dehora.org/199999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999/1/ have I automagically created a resource by virtue of the fact that I've created an identifier? -Bill de hÓra
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