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   RE: Services-based automation (WAS RE: Realistic proposals to the W3C?)

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  • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
  • To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
  • Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:54:00 -0500

That is true but only because a human is trained 
to get that information from the structure.  To 
the machine, H1 just means "Make it bigger, bolder, 
and stuff a line break or two in there unless 
instructed otherwise by a separate set of instructions."

What the RDF might bring to the party is a means to 
train the machine a bit better, so in effect, a 
separate set of instructions.  As Joe said, it 
comes down to pattern recognition.  Humans do it 
extremely well and that combined with an opposable 
thumb and speech gave us top branch on the monkey tree.

What services can pattern recognition provide?

Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@home.com]

Actually, there can be more than meets the eye at first.
With human-to-human communication, structure can provide
quite a lot of meaning.  Just change the indentation of a
list or the order of parts of a sentence and you can easily
change the meaning, for example.  Labeling a part with <h2>
brings some intention or hint or context along with it.





 

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