I have not had the same experiences. I often see a lot of
completely unrelated stuff turn up in my searches...
> It would be great if the entire Web were fully semantically
> tagged, with a rich set of CApH-style topic maps. I keep
> thinking of Star Trek, where Captain Picard can say "Computer,
> tell me about twentieth century North American telecommunications
> networks and track and field events" and the computer gives
> him an answer. If the Web were semantically tagged, that
> would actually be possible!
Would it? How many searchable keys would you say this message
contained? Not more than 10 by my count...
> HTML does a not-too-bad job for very little investment.
We probably don't have the same expectations if you classify
it as "not-too-bad".
Anyone from TEI following this thread? Someone want to throw
there $0.02 in?
> > > This last is something that few other text markup languages
> > > have been able to accomplish.
> >
> > To be honest there aren't that many.
>
> ?!?!?
>
> Do you consider two or three hundred "not that many"?
How did you come up with that number? I was thinking of ODA,
DCA, RTF, SGML, etc... There certainly aren't three hundred
of them in that case.
-Philip