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At 07:17 PM 9/22/2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote: >"I don't care about semantics; I only care about meaning!" That's actually not what I was saying, at all. >Ontologies are data models (mostly used as systems of logic inference) I know what ontologies are. I just think that they represent the briar patch. >that uses linking as _part_ of it. Linking by itself means very >little, in HTML, XML or otherwise. I suspect this debate is once again Are you using "means" in the ontological sense? As in, the presence of link doesn't define what that link means? >Nothing at all. It's *all* about the application of such, even in >XHTML where it means *nothing* until the browser application use the >data for something. Then we're in agreement. >It sounds like >you want there to be more generic application specific things in XML, >not less. I'm of the "less" opinion, but only because, well, I'm in >the ontologies camp. :) I actually don't see how you're finding a conflict between getting the styling languages to do something smart with links and the modelling of more generic ontologies. --->Ben
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