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Rich Salz wrote: > [Joe English] > >If we dispose of the inconvenient fiction > >of a "Resource", most of the metaphysical hooey > >surrounding URIs goes away. > > I'd like to watch you try, if only so I could watch the heads of > Fielding and the rest of the REST camp explode. Actually it was REST doctrine -- where the notion of Resource is acknowledged to be a convenient fiction -- that finally convinced me there ain't no such thing. With REST at one end (where a Resource is some paraphenomenal abstract thing you can never get your hands on), RDF at the other (where a Resource is anything Identified by a URI and a URI is anything that Identifies a Resource), and nothing but confusion and philosophical arguments in the middle, that's the only sensible conclusion I can come to. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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