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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
ASSERTION #1
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”.
ASSERTION #3 On the visible Web, (X)HTML will continue to be the primary markup language for the foreseeable future. ASSERTION #4 The
more a resource makes available its information (in an appropriate way) on the
visible Web, the more useful and beneficial it becomes to the Web
community. ASSERTION #5 Web services are part of the hidden Web,
and are useful and
beneficial to the Web community
only to the extent they are able to contribute or facilitate the availability
of information in an appropriate fashion to the visible Web. ASSERTION #6 Focus your main efforts on making information available on the visible Web in an appropriate fashion such that the benefits of doing so are maximized, and without introducing a detrimental impact. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The visible Web is the portion of the Web that produces information intended for human consumption. In particular, this document focuses on the portion of the Web that produces information to be consumed by humans via a browser. The visible Web is the portion of the Web that produces information that is available to search engines. DEFINITION – HIDDEN
(INVISIBLE) WEB The
hidden Web, on the other hand,
is the portion of the Web that produces the information intended to be consumed
by machines (i.e.,
machine-to-machine
interaction).
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