Re: [xml-dev] Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: [xml-dev] Re: Non-info set)

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

>So a URI is a function? 
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i'm confused (as usual) - does the uri on a namespace definition make 
sense by being allowed to be a null function?

>No, a resource is a function per definition. 
>A resource maps a URI to another URI in the case of a redirect.  
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>A URI is an argument to a resource?
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>It makes better sense that way.  A hyperlink is not a URI.  A hyperlink is 
>a function.  A hyperlink can be a resource (and so can anything else except 
>a URI).
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>len
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>From: Jan Algermissen [mailto:]
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>Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
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>>Wait a minute.  Rereading that: then a URI IS a resource 
>>because resource identifiers are in the set.   
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>Hmm...no, (I think) it is either/or. A redirect is a case where the 
>function maps to a URI.
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