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 Miles Sabin wrote: > > ... The ontologic approach is such a declarative approach -- for example, > > nowhere in the OWL specifications is *any* writing about a "processing > > model". You may consider such ontologic descriptions as specious > > abstractions, but the whole point of this excercize is that much can > > be done *without specifying any processing*. > > Horror! Programmers prefer processes (which at least move around a bit) > to cold dead propositions! That is true, but we need to remember that the XML community is not exclusively composed of programmers -- the concept of marking up a document originated with folks who read and edit documents. > > Perhaps when you're done with the Tractatus you could move on to the > Investigations ;-) > This is hardly an esoteric philosophical argument. My interest in ontologies originates in my interest in more precisely writing and classifying medical documents (which are at the moment largely handwritten) and allowing these documents to be better stored and retrieved and transmittent from one location to another (e.g. a family doctor to a specialist). The process by which the brain reads the document is not much relevent to how the documents are marked up. Jonathan 
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