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Re: many-to-many

• To: simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent)
• Subject: Re: many-to-many
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:31:29 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <r01050400-1023-80F381BA320311D78F1A0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]> from "Simon St.Laurent" at Jan 27, 2003 09:27:45 AM

Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> You appear to be claiming that RDF is all about adjectives while REST is
> about nouns and verbs, and I'm left wondering who had the brilliant idea
> of making all adjectives out of nouns.

Our Indo-European ancestors (or antecessors), those of us who have them,
anyhow.  Adjectives are just a variant of nouns.  In Chinese, OTOH, they are
a variant of verbs.

> I can't say that I'm  sold on
> the notion of using URIs as adjectives in any event.  For my own work,
> other identifiers (mostly defined in MIME) seem more appropriate, not to
> mention more concise and more human-readable.

There is a very nice mapping from media types to URIs: prepend
"http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/" to the media type.
One can do similar things for language tags, port numbers, protocol
types, etc.

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