Re: Internet search engines and databases
Date: 2000/04/09
Message-ID: <38f0ab02.1691926_at_news.demon.co.uk>#1/1
With respect, Ken, I disagree for the following reasons.
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:11:44 -0700, "KenNorth" <knorth_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
>> > Tony Fulford <tony_fulfordNOtoSPAM_at_ibm.net.invalid> wrote:
>> > > I would like to start a new thread to discuss the future of searching
>> > > the internet.
>
>Even if you got every Web site in the world to expose its metadata as XML,
>you'd still have a problem with semantics. Is my <ID> the same as your <ID>?
>
It matters not a bit - you will be using their DTD or Schema for their
data, not yours. It only matters if you want to actually import their
data into your database - in which case you need a conversion scheme
and have built a shared-data business tool. There are plenty of these
about, although not many running live, I understand.
-- Mark A Preston BSc, FIAP The Magpie's Nest mark_at_mpreston.demon.co.ukReceived on Sun Apr 09 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST