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John Cowan wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote: > > This analogy is actually quite dangerous to your > > position. Typists are freely available (free speech, > > not free beer). As long as the semantic info is > > available (hardcopy or HTML crud) it can be > > transcribed. > > Typists can regenerate the surface form, but not the > lost semantic markup. Are you sure about that? Granted they _might_ not be able to restore the semantic markup that was placed there by the originator (tho' I think they might well be able to infer a lot of it in many cases: remember they're people not machines). But in any case, do we necessarily _care_ about the originators markup? Yes, if their idea of what's significant matches ours, but not necessarily otherwise. So our typists, or maybe 'knowledge engineers', add the markup _we_ want. A dreadful prospect, I agree, and clearly contrary to the spirit of the semantic web, but, I'm afraid it looks to be pretty much consistent with your open/closed source analogy (which was the only thing I was quibbling about BTW). Cheers, Miles -- Miles Sabin Cromwell Media Internet Systems Architect 5/6 Glenthorne Mews +44 (0)181 410 2230 London, W6 0LJ msabin@c... England 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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