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John Cowan wrote:
> True, a point I made in a later posting. But in topic maps, the separation
> of resource-as-document and resource-as-subject goes right down to the
> bottom: *every* appearance of a URI is unambiguously labeled as one or
> the other. I hold this to be a Good Thing.
I think it would be Good if life were that simple, but whereas the
abstraction of "the document" vs "what the document's about" works
beautifully, I'm told, in the discipline of architecture, I just don't
have good experiences trying to make things in other application spaces
line up so neatly.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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