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At 03:15 PM 12/21/00 +0000, Sean B. Palmer wrote: >> URIs in general remain deeply amorphous. > >Yes, they are, but I thikn some of the confusion about "URIs pointing to >information" is derived from a popular misnomer: "that because the SW is >evolving from all of the technologies and architectures of the WWW, it is >going to be a similar system". Just to clarify that, it isn't! If people >think that they can look for the best porn site in the galaxy on an SW >search engine and find it, then they are very much mistaken. That is *not* >what the SW is about: it's a database, not a book (or picture book). Er, I've described the Web in its current form as 'a database, not a book', and I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Are you just talking about machine-readable versus human-readable? Or something architectural? Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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