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   Re: [xml-dev] Are URIs Resources? (WAS RE: [xml-dev] Re: Non-info set)

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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

>So a URI is a function? 
>  
>
i'm confused (as usual) - does the uri on a namespace definition make 
sense by being allowed to be a null function?

>No, a resource is a function per definition. 
>A resource maps a URI to another URI in the case of a redirect.  
>
>A URI is an argument to a resource?
>
>It makes better sense that way.  A hyperlink is not a URI.  A hyperlink is 
>a function.  A hyperlink can be a resource (and so can anything else except 
>a URI).
>  
>

>len
>
>
>From: Jan Algermissen [mailto:jalgermissen@topicmapping.com]
>
>Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
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>  
>
>>Wait a minute.  Rereading that: then a URI IS a resource 
>>because resource identifiers are in the set.   
>>
>>    
>>
>Hmm...no, (I think) it is either/or. A redirect is a case where the 
>function maps to a URI.
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