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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: Why REST? (RE: [xml-dev] WSIO- With Name)

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> Mark Baker scripsit:
> 
> > The W3C has identity, as does its web page.  So both are resources, and
> > can therefore be identified by URIs.
> 
> Fair enough.  But what is the URI that refers to the W3C, and how
> do we know?

We ask them!  Or alternately, they use some language (RDF or whatever)
returned over a GET to assert what http://www.w3.org identifies.

> I don't undersstand this.  Do HTTP semantics apply to URIs that do
> not respond to the HTTP protocol?

Yes.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@planetfred.com
http://www.markbaker.ca   http://www.planetfred.com




 

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