Subject: Re: XFO Mapping... From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:40:19 +0100 |
Hi. Personaly I don't really see this as a problem for search engines. Unless the Web adopts one single semantically rich data model, the search engines have to resort to tactics other than relying on the data model. It is unlikely that by this point you're going to be able to cage XML distribution into a single data model, and certainly not without killing XML+CSS, which allows people to throw any data model they want onto a Web page (XML+CSS considered harmful? :) I can only really speak from my own experience, and having worked on an intranet app utilising a categorisation engine that can determine "aboutness" for anything from Web pages to Word files, I see no reason for search engines not to adapt to new Web content. If we want to give search engines a helping hand I feel this best addressed by a common meta data standard for use by search engines for indexing, which would likely recieve wide adoptence due to the large amount of people wanting indexed by search engines. Then we hit the problem of meta data being abuse by porn and warez sites, so we are back to square one whereby the engine cannot rely on a data model, but must infer meaning from the content. Personaly I don't feel search engines are any more the concern of XSL than they are the concern of CSS. XSL is a styling language concerned with presentation, not meta data and indexing. I'm not saying other areas shouldn't be considered and facilitated by XSL, but only if doing so can be bought cheaply. Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 05/06/99 07:54:55 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: Re: XFO Mapping... There is one group of "blind" for which aural constructs won't be of help: indexing agents. I will hazard the guess that search engine queries at least equal if not far exceed the number of blind *people* viewing web documents. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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