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A location is not equivalent to an identifier. I can't do a search and replace of "Microsoft" with "One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052" in every document I own and have it make sense in every usage or most usages for that matter. However TBL, Fieldings et al have decided to conflate the two concepts with the URN/URL/URI situation.
Of course, if you can restrict all references to "Microsoft" to mean the location of the Redmond campus then you can conflate the two. This is the same as Tim Bray and Paul Prescod who've decided to limit their usage of URIs to HTTP URLs.
Like I said, much to your amusement it seems, the problem is subtle and is unseen by most.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill.dehora@propylon.com]
Sent: Mon 8/12/2002 9:39 AM
To: Dare Obasanjo; 'Manos Batsis'
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Comparable considered necessary
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From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@microsoft.com]
The example was purposely simplistic to illustrate a point. You and
Manos have failed to see the point which indicates that it is probably
more subtle than I thought. It isn't worth going into a lengthy
exposition about though so I'll just leave it at "An identifier is not a
location".
Feel free to disagree.
>>
ROTFL... You shouldn't confuse prescription with fact or subtleness with
a lack of clarity. What you're claiming is neither correct nor subtle;
on the web http: URLs have location, modulo non-registered domains. So
there's really no need to disagree.
regards,
Bill de hÓra
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Propylon
www.propylon.com
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