Re: Two examples of semi structured data.

Bernard Peek wrote:

> Laconic2 writes
>

>> I still know very little about either one.  I'm not seeking a lot of
>> technical detail in this discussion, although links to good technical
>> websites would be helpful.    What I want to do is use them as 
>> examples of
>> semi structured data.

Seems obvious, no? After all it is a hierarchical data-store.

Yet, if you take a look at what is stored inthere (just start regedit on some windows box), you will see that those data have structure beyond the hierarchy imposed by the registry: both within a value (intra-structure) and structures using multiple keys (only detectible if you compare registry images before and after a registry change, extra-structure. In other words: the structure of the registry does *not* give you the structure of the data at all.

So wether they are structured, unstructured or semi-structured - no one can tell. Received on Sat Aug 21 2004 - 00:38:26 CEST