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RE: Is HTML structured or unstructured information?

• To: "Mukul Gandhi" <mukul_gandhi@y...>, "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Is HTML structured or unstructured information?
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:05:15 -0400
• Thread-index: AcWdCKQqf9lBuJGrSHWAG3HYo0PEjgAFPa+g
• Thread-topic: Is HTML structured or unstructured information?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@y...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 1:30 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Is HTML structured or unstructured information?
> 
> Hi Len,
>   Namaste to you too!
> 
> You seem to know Hindi (which is India's national language). 

Nah, he looked it up on a Web site.;)

Joe

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> I live in India, near Delhi at a place called Gurgaon, where 
> hard core Hindi is spoken :) 
> 
> I like HTML a lot! Its simplicity and logical vocabulary 
> helps me write any complex HTML page I wish! I first used 
> HTML in 1997. So its 8 years now, and almost an emotional 
> connection with HTML. Later I wrote JavaScript very much and 
> enjoyed this programming paradigm. 
> 
> I am not sure, but I think I discovered a piece of JavaScript 
> code few years back to submit an HTML form via HTTP POST 
> method.. My manager in my first organization (He is CTO of 
> accellion.com and a wonderful person) wanted me to find a 
> way, and I did so! I learnt all web based skills there. I 
> also wrote a rudimentary multithreaded web server in Java. 
> 
> Just last week I wrote a XML streaming over Java Sockets (in 
> a multithreaded environment) application..
> So programming is my passion, and gives me lot of satisfaction..
> 
> Have a nice day Len :)
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> --- "Bullard, Claude L (Len)"
> <len.bullard@i...> wrote:
> 
> > Namaste, Mukul ji.
> > 
> > I'm a fast typist, but otherwise, only a philosopher and clown.
> > 
> > HTML is structured by definition.  The POV of the 
> unstructured search 
> > engine varies tag by tag, node by node.
> > 
> > The content of text nodes inside hs, ths, etc, make a lot of 
> > difference to an 'unstructured' search engine, or at least in the 
> > lion, gazelle and hunter model, those are the easiest lions to pick 
> > off before diving into the ps and the attributes of imgs.  
> Then there 
> > are the URIs
> > 
> > themselves, but these can be controversial in some hunts.
> > 
> > The metas are gold if used well, but otherwise, just
> > 
> > annotations.   The more the author annotates, the 
> > easier it is to clarify intent but not necessarily to 
> establish truth.  
> > For that reason, unstructured search systems are 
> problematic the more 
> > a decision relies on them in real time or in a quantum field (the 
> > problem of a particle in superposition).
> > 
> > len
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@y...]
> > 
> > Hi Len,
> >   I am not as knowleadgeable as you are. But IMHO
> > 
> >   1) HTML is a language for displaying content of the web 
> page. As for 
> > any content, HTML can be treated as unstructured information.
> > 
> >   2) On the other hand, I think, since HTML is a vocabulary for Web 
> > GUI, it can be treated as strcutured.
> > 
> >   3) Since HTML is also a computer language, it can be 
> treated as such 
> > by many people.
> > 
> >   4) To my experiance, relational data can be treated as structured 
> > information since relational data is handled by SQL.
> > 
> > Just my opinion!
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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