RE: [xml-dev] Is HTML structured or unstructured information?

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

In a word, it can be considered semi-structured. But some consider it
unstructured. Depends on your perspective.

Joe

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:53 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] Is HTML structured or unstructured information?
> 
> Is HTML structured or unstructured information?
> 
> "Structured information may be characterized as information 
> whose intended meaning is unambiguous and explicitly 
> represented in the structure or format of the data. The 
> canonical example of structured information is a relational 
> database table. Unstructured information may be characterized 
> as information whose intended meaning is only loosely implied 
> by its form and therefore requires interpretation in order to 
> approximate and extract its intended meaning. Examples 
> include natural language documents, speech, audio, still 
> images, and video."
> 
> http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/433/ferrucci.html
> 
> IAW that definition, it is unstructured.  OTOH is it really a 
> mixed variety and that definition, polar and incomplete?
> 
> len
> 
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