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> Well, while not guarunteeing it, it should at least have an underlying
> architecture that promotes it.
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> The Web architecture does not guaruntee that you'll get anything if
> you dereference a URL, but the basic design presumes you will. Likewise,
> the basic design (IMO) of the SW presumes that URIs denote only one
> thing and what you might get when dereferencing that URI is a
> representation of that one thing (not e.g. another resource defining
> relations of the resource denoted by that URI with other resources,
> i.e. a RDDL document).
The ONE thing might have properties you previously were not aware of -
For instance you just know it's the XML Schema namespace URI ...then
de-refence the URI and realize...it's a bit more useful. In fact it's telling
you how to get DTD's, XML Schema for that namespace. One get's aware of
the existence of RDDL. Realizes, that the web-page isn't that well maintained...
One learns a lot...
rs
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> The problem is that the entire issue of what a reasonable representation
> is, is not addressed anywhere I'm aware of.
>
> Patrick
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