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• Subject: Re: Q&A Markup Language?
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:31:10 -0500
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Roger L. Costello wrote:

> 
> Has anyone created an XML vocabulary for Question and Answer data?
> 
> Without thinking deeply about it, I suppose that a Q&A vocabulary could
> be something as simple as:
> 
> <session>
>      <question>...</question>
>      <answer>...</answer>
>      <answer>...</answer>
>      ...
> </session>
> 
> Perhaps someone has already thought more deeply about this and has
> created a Q&A vocabulary?  If so, please let me know.  /Roger

This reminds me of IBIS (Issue-based Information System), which has been 
around for a long time.  Jack Park has worked up a Topic Maps version, 
and of course topic maps can be serialized in xml -

http://www.knowledgetechnologies.net/proceedings/presentations/park/html/NEXIST.html
http://nexist.sourceforge.net


  You want to remember that the threads can get pretty complex.  For 
example, an answer can spawn more questions...

Cheers,

Tom P

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