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This all seems solvable except for the RDF part. I could envision a way for a resource to specify (when retrieved) "This is my Canonical URI" - then to test identity you can retrieve the resources and see what they say. Supplement this with some agreeable algorthims, for instance that "http://example.org/doc#foo" is equivalent to "http://example.org/doc#xpointer(foo)", and I think a pretty good 80/20 point for URI identity can be reached. But RDF is the problem, because it has a "special" way of looking at URIs. I've examined RDF, and have considered using it, but this flaw is always the biggest stumbling block. Is there any hope for resolving this RDF/URI infidelity? -Wayne Steele -------------------- From: John Cowan <cowan@m...> To: "Steven R. Newcomb" <srn@c...> CC: cowan@m..., chris.angus@b..., xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Modularity (was: Linkbases, Topic Maps,and RDF Knowledge Bases -- help me understand, please) Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 01:20:18 -0400 (EDT) Steven R. Newcomb scripsit: >Actually, fetching the resources does not, in the general case, permit us >to determine that the resources have the same identity. Oh yes, I know. I hammered on that point over and over on xml-uri among other places: Octet identity of entity bodies is neither necessary nor sufficient for identity of resources. The official line is that resources are identical iff their URIs are identical, although I take a more relaxed view: two URIs may refer to the same resource if the owner says so. For example, ftp://ftp.reutershealth.com/home/internal and http://ftp.reutershealth.com:8181/home/internal are according to me the same resource. (Don't bother going there.) But I was addressing a different point: namely, the undecidability of whether two syntactically different XPointers point to the same part of a given document without examining the document. For XLink purposes, they are the same if they refer to the same thing in document; for RDF purposes, they are the always different. -- John Cowan cowan@c... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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