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At 21:00 21/07/2006, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Once again, many thanks for your outstanding comments. Below I have
>tried to recap the core assertions. I am sure that many of the
>assertions could be worded better or more precisely. Please let me
>know. And as always, I welcome your critique of the assertions. /Roger
>
Roger,
Many thanks indeed for catalyzing this discussion which I think has
the possibility to lead to practical advances. I shall make a
practical suggestion in a separate post
I don't agree with your distinction between visible and hidden web.
Henry Rzepa and I have argued that (at least for scientific
communication) a single XML document should be used to represent the
information and should be repurposed for sighted humans, unsighted
humans and machines as required; We call this XML a "datument": See
http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v05/i01/Murray-Rust/ (peer-reviewed
Open Access article)
>ASSERTION #1<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
>
>There is little usage of XML on the visible Web. That is, the
>information available to the end user (or his/her browser) is
>primarily in the form of (X)HTML, not XML.
>
>ASSERTION #2
>
>XML is not appropriate for the visible Web. XML will continue to
>have limited usage on the visible Web. As Len Bullard says, "XML is
>plumbing".
For us XML is *not* plumbing. It is a means of representing a
community's semantics and vocabulary (CML has over 100 elements and
200 attributes). It is therefore particularly appropriate where
communities exist, and I see this especially in STM -
Science/Technical/Medical. We are working closely with publishers who
are interested in publishing XML/CML directly and we expect some
first examples RSN. While I accept that the main current purpose of
the Web is for large organisations to use it to further their
business (political or commercial), there is a sizeable remainder in
numeric terms of people who wish to develop the Web as a means for
communicating ideas in machine-processable form beyond HTML.
Peter Murray-Rust
Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics
University of Cambridge,
Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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