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On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 12:36 +0000, Roger L Costello wrote: > > An XML document is an information resource (series of octets) > described by the application/xml media type. In MIME and HTTP terminology, a URI (uniform resource identifier) identifies a resource, and a URL gives a Location. What is returned from dereferencing a URL using HTTP is a representation of a resource. This does beg the question, what is a resource. And what is information. And then, what is an information resource? But the series of octets is a representation in much the same way that a physical copy of a book sitting in your hands is a “manifestation of a work”—you are not holding Shakespeare’s sonnet, “Ode to a validator” but a printed representation of that sonnet, possibly one of many. The large print edition, the audiobook, the stone carving in the garden of the Scottish sculptor, are each a different representation, and in book terms another copy of the same edition and impression of the book you hold is another manifestation. For my own part i think that information isn’t intrinsic to a resource, nor to a representation, but is something gleaned by inspection and analysis. Communication happens when sender and recipient glean recognizeably similar information. <me> Bot, what is the name of the umpire? <bot> Fact recorded: the name of the umpire is “what”. (who’s on first base anyway?) liam -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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