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Re: patterns vs. identifiers

• To: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:03:00 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Arjun Ray <aray@n...> of "Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:48:59 -0000." <no5jmu05nifcftft3src6mlg1mr3flvd0c@4...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> 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").

Hmm.  This is not what I'd call a "strong notion of identity".  The same can 
be said of any XML vocab that uses attributes of type ID.  I'd be quite 
surprised if this is what I'm to understand here.


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