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AndrewWatt2000@a... writes: >Is the conclusion from what you say that you view XML-based search >engines as a fantasy? And an undesirable fantasy at that? > >To put my question another way, how do you see it as being practical >or desirable to make progress from the current state of the art of Web >search strategies? Does XML have a role in your view? Labeled information is generally easier to work with than unlabeled data, so sure, there's a role for XML in searching. The usefulness of those labels seems far greater on a small scale (XPath expressions for extracting info, for instance, or querying one department or one corporation's information) than on a large scale, where multiple vocabularies and multiple uses of those vocabularies complicate matters quickly. There's plenty of "progress" there to be made on a small to medium, and that's why I consider things like RDF important. I just don't consider them general solutions to all my XML problems, nor do I think that ontology-building is a magic answer to all our search engine questions. Is there an 80/20 point? I think there probably are many, but also suspect that the 20 moves out rapidly as the scale of the data and the number of possible questions increases. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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