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At 10:18 AM 10/18/00 -0700, Ronald Bourret wrote: >Then I looked at XML and thought, "This is the answer and it's pretty >obvious, just not all that technically exciting." You throw out the AI >bit and go for the human solution: ask everybody to cooperate and tell >the world what kind of data is on their Web page. It might sound like a >hard sell, but it really isn't, no more than getting people to post Web >pages in the first place. Exactly! I think it's reasonable to suggest starting small, let people develop their own 'semantic networks', and build from there. I guess I have no shame in picking up the phone or using other out-of-band communications (email, Web pages) to find out what something means. I'd rather that we figure out how to label and structure our information before focusing on how to communicate the meanings of those labels to everyone, including computers. Automation is exciting, but I'm not sure I want it driving activity at every single stage of development. XML is a big improvement over its predecessors on the Web, IMHO, and I'd like to see us figure out how to use those capabilities before binding them permanently to 'higher' goals. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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