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• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:48:59 +0000
• In-reply-to: <E17j9Oc-0001lf-00@m...>
• References: <paul@p...> of "Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:30:47 PDT." <3D6260A7.AB12C5D9@p...> <E17j9Oc-0001lf-00@m...>

Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...> wrote:
|[Paul Prescod:]

|> 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 can't speak for Paul, but I doubt that is what he meant.  I'd say a
closer example would be the way in which ID attributes establish identity
in a document (i.e. "distinct existence").

[String matching of URIs is an artifact of the now routine denormalizing
practice of stuffing of URIs into attributes, just because a href got
invented way back when.]

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