On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:31:07PM +0000, Ann Apps wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 Thomas Baker wrote:
> > -- I'm slightly bothered by the wording that a string or a
> > rich value "is a representation of" the resource. Maybe
> > I'm reading "representation of" a bit too literally, but
> > to me the words evoke something like a visual depiction.
> > For example, a portrait photograph can be "a representation
> > of" Andy Powell. For me, a wording like the following
> > would not have the same associations:
> >
> > Each... string stands for the resource...
> >
> > Each rich value... is some text... that stands for the
> > resource...
> >
> In Computer Science, the term 'representation' or 'physical
> representation' means a way of making some structured item, or
> whatever, into a series of character string bytes (or I suppose
> strictly into a seqeunce of 1s and 0s) so that it can be transmitted
> over a network, or stored in a file.
Okay... but to me, that meaning -- in this context -- sounds
misleading in yet another way :)
> Another word for the same thing that is becoming accepted
> because XML talks about it (and much more trendy!) is
> 'serialisation'. So maybe we could have:
>
> Each rich value... is some text... that serialises the
> resource...
Okay, so I get one part this week and wait in suspense for
the next part next week...:)
Tom ("man in the street")
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