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

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It is the natural sense of it to me as well, although, 
given the names of arguments, I can conceive of a URI 
as a document itself (particularly if it names a name).

If I think of the hyperlink as a function a) I win 
an old discussion with Goldfarb from a long time ago 
b) the framework of objects makes more sense to me 
as I can conceive of it as a control.   

Then the range is computed, not declared per se, 
and that fits the quantum logic model (the act 
of addressing a continuous resource is just 
a vector address).

Now, does that fit what Fielding says.  One 
thing that leaps out at me is that if the 
URI is not itself a resource or a representation, 
its space parallels the information space, that 
is, it is not itself part of the web by definition.
If it is, then it should be addressable when in 
a document state (which of course, it is given 
an element container where it is just the value 
of the href attribute).

The quantum logic approach fits.

len


From: Alan Gutierrez [mailto:alan-xml-dev@engrm.com]

* Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@intergraph.com> [2005-04-11 17:30]:
> So a URI is a 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).

    Coming in late. Probably covered.

    I'm using URIs a lot in Java programming. Pretty much where ever
    I need a key. I'm building frameworks, and to keep things
    extesnible, I'll use a URI keyed Map for data, for those things
    whose type cannot be anticipated. (Perlish, Perlish, me.)

    Thus, I tend to see URIs as arguments. This breakdown of
    hyperlink as function, URI as argument is how I see it.
    
    The distinction between the resource and the identifier was a
    leap, but it's natural now. The distinction between a URI and
    the code that resolves it was a leap, but it's natural now.

    Unless it's unnatural. I'm coming in late.




 

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