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RE: stupid URI tricks was: Re: URIs harmful

• To: "'Jonathan Borden'" <jborden@a...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: stupid URI tricks was: Re: URIs harmful
• From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@h...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:48:22 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <009401c23378$064989d0$0201a8c0@n...>
• Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CCAC
• Reply-to: <jc2astro@h...>

> Everything and anything which might be identified by a URI, has a
> representation. Perhaps not a good representation but nonetheless a
> representation.

According to the spec (rfc 2396):

> The resource is the conceptual mapping to an entity or set of
> entities, not necessarily the entity which corresponds to that
> mapping at any particular instance in time.

Thus, you can have a URI which points to nothing at a particular time.  And
that's the main problem, methinks:

1) Anything might be represented by a URI.
2) A URI might not represent anything (at least, something which is not re.

> Now consider something _without_ a representation:
>
> text/plain; a thing without a representation

That's a blank document; a file with no text in it.  It is still identified
by the mime-type text/plain.  Thus, it is still a thing.

--
Jimmy Cerra
jfcst24@s...


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