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John Cowan wrote: > > David Brownell wrote: > > > 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. I think you're agreeing with me, then, when you say that providing only one "view" is a firewall. The example you give of "source only" (v. "binary only") not being a firewall supports what I said too -- since that's an example of looking at the "whole web", for an extremely restrictive view of "web". If I were to attach some source code to this message, it wouldn't really be sufficient _in itself_ to present a web. You'd need to know something about its platform environment to compile or execute it -- more of its web. You'd need to know something about its intent to choose whether to try -- more of its web. Perhaps you'd need to understand the language(s) it used -- more of its web. And so on. - Dave 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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