> Two More Questions:
>
> 1. What is an "information resource"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPRange-14 enters the room.
> 2. The parenthetical remark seems to imply that an information
> resource is a "series of octets". Is an information resource a series
> of octets?
I think a series of octets is inadquate by itself and the text you
quoted doesn’t presume a series of octets *by itself* is a resource. It
explicitly includes “described by the application/json media type”.
That’s a pretty common definition, in my experience: a sequence of
octets with a MIME type. If the MIME type describes a format realized as
a sequence of characters, you need an encoding as well, or some way to
get the encoding.
To see how this works in practice, consider how this sequence of octets
is interpreted with different MIME types:
0000000 743c 6261 656c 3c3e 7274 3c3e 6474 483e
0000020 6c65 6f6c 2f3c 6474 3c3e 742f 6261 656c
0000040 0a3e
0000042
For convenience, interpreted as text/plain, that’s
<table><tr><td>Hello</td></table>
Interpreted as text/html, that’s
<html><head></head><body><table><tbody><tr><td>Hello</td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>
Interpreted as application/xml, that’s not well formed. So there’s some
sense in which it is not an XML information resource.
Be seeing you,
norm
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