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Walter Underwood wrote: >... > Here are stages of having the info (content) that you want, > ordered in increasing amounts of wasted time. > > 1. I have the information. > 2. I know where the information is. > 3. I know it exists, but I don't know where it is. > 4. I don't know if it exists. > > Only the last two need some sort of metacontent or finding aid. > I'd add one more: 5. I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for, but I'll probably know it when I find it. This could be analogous to browsing in store looking for a gift, which you vaguely thought might be a toaster, and discovering a bread machine. With the size and complexity of the web, making (5) work better would be a great boon. Tom Passin > Organizing and indexing content is a time-saver, and sometimes that > is essential. Sometimes, the metacontent has the whole answer (which > companies sell rhinestone tiaras), but most people really want to > buy the tiara. > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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