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David Brownell wrote: > Hmm ... do you see them as issues in other contexts? Information > is transformed routinely, every day. Frankly, I don't want to to be > getting a complete history of everyone's life every time I deal with > them; I'm happier to work with the current context (far smaller!). > That sort of time/history based "semantic firewall" is very useful, > for all that it's subject to abuse by all parties. [other examples snipped] > If the semantic content is a "web" then anything short of looking at > the whole web at once (yeah, right!) is looking through a "firewall". There is a fundamental difference between providing a multiplicity of views and creating a semantic firewall. Providing source and binary is a multiplicity of views. Providing binary only is a firewall. Providing source only is not a firewall, because compilers are freely available (free speech, not free beer). Providing hard copy and soft copy is a multiplicity. Providing hard copy only is a firewall. Providing HTML rather than XML, or PDF rather than HTML, are firewalls. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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