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> -----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 Joseph Chiusano Booz Allen Hamilton O: 703-902-6923 C: 202-251-0731 Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com > 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! > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: > http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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