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> 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. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/ Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-jclark.html Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A 1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC
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