Re: [xml-dev] URIs harmful

From
Seairth Jacobs <>
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xml-dev <>
Date
2002-07-26T13:10:14Z
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Re: [xml-dev] URIs harmful
From: "John Cowan" <>
> Mark Baker scripsit:
>
> > Tim told me that he thought that http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
> > identified the W3C.
>
> Well, okay.  But that URI also identifies a hyperdocument, so we haven't
> really gained anything by moving off the home page: there is the same
> old map/territory confusion.

If the above URI identified the W3C, then what gets returned via http is a
representation of the W3C.  This representation may be in the form of a
hyperdocument, but it is still only a representation.

Or are you saying that (not knowing of Tim's/Mark's statement) the above URI
could just as easily be identifying the resource that is the hyperdocument,
and not the W3C itself?

Seairth