Re: Determining what a URI identifies

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> So when RDF talks about  <#joe> as having
> a contact:mailbox of  <mailto:joe@example.com>
> an RDF processor which is aware of the URI spec
> and the spec of mailto:  knows that the object
> is an email mailbox according to the email specs.

You want the processor to infer the type of an object from the syntax of 
its URI? What happened to opacity of URIs?

  Paul Prescod

Received on Monday, 4 November 2002 15:21:51 UTC