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Jimmy Cerra wrote: > > Everything and anything which might be identified by a URI, has a > > representation. Perhaps not a good representation but nonetheless a > > representation. I've worded this incorrrectly: _For_ everything and anything which is identified by a URI, _one can create_ a representation. Perhaps not a good representation but nonetheless a representation. > > Thus, you can have a URI which points to nothing at a particular time. And > that's the main problem, methinks: > > 1) Anything might be represented by a URI. > 2) A URI might not represent anything (at least, something which is not re. No. Every URI _always_ identifies a resource. If the resource has not been provided with a representation at any given point in time, its just because the author/owner/controller has not provided one. > > > Now consider something _without_ a representation: > > > > text/plain; a thing without a representation > > That's a blank document; a file with no text in it. It is still identified > by the mime-type text/plain. Thus, it is still a thing. The point of the above is that the representation of a conceptual resource "a thing without a represenation" could always be the text: "a thing without a representation", therefor there one can always provide a representation for any resource (if one so chooses). Jonathan
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