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At 04:54 PM 12/8/99 -0800, tbray@t... wrote: > >But my big problem is with the idea that individual resources ought >to embed robot-steering information. It just feels like the wrong >level of granularity. For really picky indexing and searching, it is wrong. Structural markup opens up some really nice possibilities. An indexer might weight the bibliography less and the abstract more, for example. But that sort of tweakiness changes for each search engine. So I'd implement that as a DTD-specific configuration in each engine, rather than trying to add processor-specific markup to each document. In fact, I already implemented it that way. Use the structure, Luke. On the plus side, XML tends to be content-rich, without navbars and decoration. This means that you get better quality results without resorting to tweaks. For example, you can actually search for "Home", "Copyright", or "Help" and get relevant results. >... The PI has the characteristic that it *has* to be in >the document and can modify *only* the whole document. Also I >question the ability of authors to do the right thing with this >kind of a macro-level control. Also I question the ability of robot >authors to do the right thing at the individual document level. I'm willing to trust the authors and webmasters. There are a lot of professionals out there. As for robot authors, if the robots PI semantics are the same as the HTML robots meta tag semantics, it should be pretty easy to get right. If they are different, all bets are off. >Anyhow, is there enough XML on the web to make this interesting? >Serious question, I don't know the answer. -T. We're seeing XML-backed websites where they want to index the XML, but serve URLs pointing to the formatted HTML. wunder -- Walter R. Underwood wunder@i... wunder@b... (home) http://software.infoseek.com/ http://www.best.com/~wunder/ 1-408-543-6946 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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