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RE: XML/RDF

• To: 'Paul Prescod' <paul@p...>, Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: RE: XML/RDF
• From: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>
• Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:11:13 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Hi Paul, Mike,

>Two databases may 
>use different identifiers for what is in fact the same concept, such as 
>zip code. A program that wants to compare or combine information across 
>the two databases has to know that these two terms are being used to 
>mean the same thing.

Isn't that the whole crux of the problem? If the problem is that two
databases (or web pages) use a different name for "zip code", the solution
is to add a third (Q)name, that both must agree upon?

.micah

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