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- To: "xml-Dev (E-mail)" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Comparable considered necessary
- From: "Paul Brown" <prb@fivesight.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:58:24 -0400
- Cc: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Thread-index: AcJB/sjoluU2eGODTqOycanDHvSpUgAAINJg
- Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Comparable considered necessary
> -----Original Message-----
> [John Cowan [mailto:jcowan 't reutershealth.com] ]
> Well, really this is not so mysteriously platonic. After all, when
> we want to refer to Boston, we don't insert Boston (the city) into a
> sentence: we use its name, e.g. in this sentence. And when we
> want to refer to the *word* for Boston, we don't insert the very
> word into a sentence: we use *its* name, 'Boston', e.g. in
> *this* sentence.
But is "Boston" referring to the municipal government, the city and surrounding suburbs, the basketball team, or the rock band of yore? Refining the reference requires context and intepretation. A URI needs to stand on its own.
-- Paul
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