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   RE: [xml-dev] Comparable considered necessary

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  • 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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