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Jonathan Borden wrote: > But as in documents designed purely for human consumption, people have a > need to continuously invent new terms for otherwise common things. It is > both a way for members of a group to speak precisely about common knowledge > and as a barrier to entry for outsiders (for example medical terminology :-) > > -Jonathan Unfortunately it is easier to reinvent a new term than to find out what everybody (or anybody) else has used to define a similar term. But consider efforts by the UN and D&B to produce Standard Products and Services Classification (SPSC) [*] to classify just about any product or service available worldwide. Certain elements in ebXML and cXML documents, e.g., require (I don't say enforce) UN/SPSC content. Someday common XML elements may be codified in a similar way (notice I am not even mentioning the word *semantics* %^}). Mike [*] http://www.unspsc.org
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