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Re: patterns vs. identifiers

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:14:05 -0600
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Paul Prescod <paul@p...> of "Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:30:47 PDT." <3D6260A7.AB12C5D9@p...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Mike Champion wrote:
> > 
> >...
> > 
> > Perhaps RDF can be used as a pattern-matching tool rather than
> > a logical inferencing system, and maybe "pattern matching" can be logical
> > as well as heuristic. Still, an astronomical number of electrons
> > have changed state in search of a definition of URIs that can
> > support the needs of RDF, and that suggests to me that the notion
> > of "identity" is profoundly important in the RDF paradigm.
> 
> RDF exists to solve a problem: associating metadata with web objects.
> You can't do that without a strong notion of identity.

So you mean the identity that comes with a string match of URIs?  i.e. string 
identity?  Well, certainly, then, yes, but isn't this the same things as with 
any XML technology?  After all, a GI is just the same sort of beast, no?

Is this what Simon has been meaning by "identifiers"?

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