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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: Why REST was Re: [xml-dev] URIs are simply names

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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 22:37, Jonathan Borden wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean but: every XML namespace URI identifies a
resource.
>
> Does it identify a namespace?
>
> Is that namespace equal to/congruent with that resource?
>

Yes. The namespace is, in fact, the identified resource. A resource may be a
collection (as long as it has identity which an XML namespace has by
definition)

Note: from RFC 2396:

[[

Resource

A resource can be anything that has identity. Familiar examples include ...
a collection of other resources.

]]

Jonathan





 

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