• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...>
• Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:13:05 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E05573B41@r.... com> <008201c1b82d$a0d2e760$0301a8c0@n...> <1014005493.943.230.camel@l...>

Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 22:37, Jonathan Borden wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean but: every XML namespace URI identifies a
resource.
>
> Does it identify a namespace?
>
> Is that namespace equal to/congruent with that resource?
>

Yes. The namespace is, in fact, the identified resource. A resource may be a
collection (as long as it has identity which an XML namespace has by
definition)

Note: from RFC 2396:

[[

Resource

A resource can be anything that has identity. Familiar examples include ...
a collection of other resources.

]]

Jonathan

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>

• References:
  • Re: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
    • From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...>
  • Re: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
• Next by Date: Re: Traditional RPC
• Previous by thread: Re: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
• Next by thread: Re: Re: Why REST was Re: URIs are simply names
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread