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Re: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:34:06 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C69857F.259A798@p...> from Paul Prescod at "Feb 12, 200201:13:35 pm"

Paul Prescod scripsit:

> That's all the Web does. Ship descriptions (formally known as
> representations) of resources around. It does not move resources.

Absolutely.  But a person is not a hyperdocument, even if they may
sometimes share the same representations.  In an RDF sense, they
can't be identified.  But in a topic map sense, the document can
be used to identify the person.

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@c...
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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