Re: [xml-dev] Is a URI a uri or the entity pointed to by the uri?

[Lauren Wood <lauren@textuality.com>]

The W3C TAG discussed a related issue for some years; you may wish to
peruse the archives.

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#httpRange-14

Lauren

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 Nov 2017, at 15:37, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
>
> 1. Here is a set:
>
> {The Amazon River, George Washington, 3}
>
> That set uses a name for each of its member, but the set consists of the
> objects named, not of the names themselves.
>
>
> If you say so. It's your notation, you can define what it means.
>
> 3. An XML document has this attendee element:
>
>                 <attendee>http://www.example.com/SallySmith</attendee>
>
> The XML Schema declares attendee this way:
>
>                 <element name=”attendee” type=”xs:anyURI” />
>
> What is the value of <attendee>?
>
> I guess you're actually asking, what is the value of
> <attendee>http://www.example.com/SallySmith</attendee>
>
> Answer: it depends what you mean by "value of". If your question means, for
> example, What is the [value] property of the element information item in the
> Infoset produced by parsing the string
> "<attendee>http://www.example.com/SallySmith</attendee>", then the answer
> is: there is no value property; the Infoset defines no such property. If
> your question means something else, for example What is the string-value of
> the element node in XDM produced by parsing the string
> "<attendee>http://www.example.com/SallySmith</attendee>", then the answer is
> "http://www.example.com/SallySmith"; (a string, or more precisely, an
> untypedAtomic value). And if your question means "what is the typed value"
> of this element node, then the answer is a URI (or more precisely, an
> instance of xs:anyURI).
>
> If your question refers to some specification of an XML vocabulary that uses
> the term "value of" in a different way, then the answer could indeed be a
> person whose name is Sally Smith. You just need to say what you mean. Until
> you say what you mean, your question is meaningless.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>