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Re: Megginson and XMLNews

  • From: Walter Underwood <wunder@i...>
  • To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:04:07 -0700

adex classifieds xml
At 06:23 PM 4/10/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>Chris Lilley writes:
>
> > Walter Underwood wrote:
> > 
> > > Why <lang> instead of an xml:lang attribute?
>
>(And many other very good questions.)  I will look into the mismatch
>in the ISO 8601 profile; otherwise, however, XMLNews-Story is designed
>to be subset-compatible with the XML version of NITF.

The W3C Note is here:  http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

>Many people -- mostly leading technical specialists in the news
>industry -- have put a lot of careful work into NITF (née UTF) over
>coming on a decade now, and we didn't see any good reason to split the
>market by introducing a competing format; ...

Understandable. As I said about RDF a couple of days back, two
formats are almost never better than one.

As a search engine writer, my interest is in common conventions
across different formats. So far, I've only found one thing that
is common to almost every DTD -- the first <title> tag is the
title (the major exception is the NAA "adex" DTD for classifieds,
where <ad-slug> is the closest thing to a title).

HTML has some conventions for search-engine metadata (title, 
description, keywords, robots). With XML, the administrator
needs to map each DTD to these elements -- more work, more
chance for error. And if the data is not there, not in a parsable
format, or in a separate metadata file, the search engine is
handicapped.

I expect to ship our next release pre-configured for NITF,
but I sure would like to see some common practice beyond <title>.
Mostly, our customers would appreciate it, and the people doing
searches would get better results.

wunder 

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