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Re: Is HTML structured or unstructured information?

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• Subject: Re: Is HTML structured or unstructured information?
• From: Greg Hunt <greg@f...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:59:17 +1000
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I agree.  Even a row of garbage bins has structure - row composed of 
bins containing...  Whether the contents of the bins are useful is a 
different thing.  With email, being able to identify a beginning, an 
end, some paragraphs and some sentences is useful structure for some 
purposes: punctuation is markup too.  Its just hard to extract 
business-useful meaning from text.

Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

>Jim Melton wrote:
>  
>
>>Unstructured data is...well, unstructured.  A decent example is the
>>text of this email message.  You might perceive structure, such as
>>paragraphs and sentences, but those are artifacts of my use of common
>>English/Western conventions, not actual structure.  
>>    
>>
>
>Yes and no.  Take a look at Markdown[1], which uses this very "perceived
>structure" of plaintext emails to generate XHTML.
>
>  
>
>>And, most importantly, there is no single "thing" that you can 
>>identify that is required, optional, or prohibited in this message.  
>>There is no structure at all. 
>>    
>>
>
>Then schema-less XML has no structure?
>
>
>[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
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>
>/Jelks
>
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