>  From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@[...].com]
>  Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:13 PM
>  To: Paul Prescod; xml-dev
>  Subject: Re: [xml-dev] SOAP and the Web
> 

Didier,

>  ..
> 
>  a) The resource is an abstract entity representing something on
>  the web. Its
>  a metaphysical monad, an abstarct thing associated to a concrete
>  thing: the
>  representation.
>  b) A resource may be identified by a URI. More particularly its location
>  represented by a URL and its name by a URN.
>  c) The outcome of an HTTP GET operation on a particular resource
>  identified
>  by a particular URI is its representation.
> 
>  However, a resource has not:
>  a) several representations

How do come to that conclusion? The representation returned upon GET depends
on a variety of factors, including HTTP request headers, time of day and so
on... So clearly a resource can have many representations.

>  b) several URIs.

Depends on how you define identity of URIs. For particular URI schemes, two
URIs may identify the same resource even if they aren't lexically identical.


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