Re: [dita] definition of resource

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>]

By "resource" we mean what the URI specification means by "resource":

Resource

         A resource can be anything that has identity.  Familiar
         examples include an electronic document, an image, a service
         (e.g., "today's weather report for Los Angeles"), and a
         collection of other resources.  Not all resources are network
         "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound
         books in a library can also be considered resources.


http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

DITA is a Web application (as is XML), so for the purposes of addressing,
all addresses that are not keys are URIs and therefore we use the IETF and
W3C terminology that applies in those cases.

Cheers,

E.
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com




On 3/30/15, 7:18 PM, "Jim Tivy" <jimt@bluestream.com> wrote:

>Wiki has a review of the history of resource
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_resource
> 
>Along the lines of some fundamental definitions - I think we need a DITA
>definition of what we mean by resource.
> 
>Something like, a resource in DITA is anything that has identity.  This
>includes topics, maps and XML fragments within maps.
>This does not include subjects defined in a subject def (or does it?)