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RE: Reality check needed ....

• To: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Reality check needed ....
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:55:29 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Reality check needed ....

Maybe some of these articles will be more helpful 

	http://news.com.com/2009-1017-857509.html

	
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/05/011205hndatastore.xml

	http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,30852,00.asp

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] 
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 1:44 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  Reality check needed ....
> 
> 
> I'm seeing a lot of articles about MS Longhorn's XML capabilities.
> 
> Here's one: 
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/13450
> 7147_paul05.html
> 
> "By standardizing information indexing and retrieval on an 
> open standard ? XML, or extensible 
> markup language ? the next-generation Windows promises to 
> make a hard drive and network as easily 
> searchable as the Internet."
> 
> This smells a bit like the crack I was smoking in about 1997 
> :-) [take that, 
> e-mail filtering software and humor-impaired gummint spy 
> types] Unfortunately, it turns out that 
> XML-based queries aren't magic UNLESS there is a certain 
> amount of predictable structure to the 
> markup, otherwise you're just doing a full-text search.
> 
> Can anyone come up with a plausible reason why XML metadata 
> (?) would make it easier to "Google" my 
> hard drive than what can be done with brute-force searching 
> today?  Any how could any google-like 
> indexing scheme help me find what I want in a non-hyperlinked 
> environment such as a personal 
> computer?  Of course, intelligently produced metadata could 
> help but a) MS shows no obvious 
> interest in the semantic web stuff and b) Windows users are 
> highly unlikely to produce anything 
> more than "metacrap" if it is up to them to add the metadata 
> every time they create a file. 
> 
> I can understand how putting "real" database technology into 
> the filesystem could make it easier to 
> search efficiently, but I don't see what XML has to do with 
> this. Is this just the usual story, 
> marketing people spreading around, and journalists inhaling, 
> the ol' XML magic pixie dust?
> 
> 
> 
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