- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:20:48 +0100
- To: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Jonathan A Rees writes:
> I added a new use case
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTTPURIUseCases#N.29_Reconciling_incompatible_uses_.28polysemy.29
> to the use case list and to the matrix
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTTPURIUseCaseMatrix
I find this too brief to be illuminating. In particular, although I
understand how "the messages being composed at different times" could
lead to the _messages_ having different _truth values_, I don't
understand how it could lead to the URI U having different meanings.
Consider the cast of U = "http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/". In a message
sent today a triple such as
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xml> dc:title
"Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition)" .
is false, but if sent in 2007 it would be true. But I don't
understand the reason this is the case to be because the meaning of U
has changed -- it hasn't, it is now what it was in 2007, namely what
it's promised to be by the W3C publication policy, approximately "The
most recent available edition of the specification with U as its
shortname" in general, or, "The most recent available edition of the
XML specification" in particular.
[Note this is _not_ a comment about the document/resource distinction,
as I take it the title of _both_ is the same in this case. . .]
Could you elaborate a bit with an example where the meaning of U is
clearly what changes? My efforts to imagine one have gotten tangled
up in the alleged/assumed monotonicity of RDF . . .
ht
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