Re: Review of GRDDL Documents and Issues

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:12 -0400, Murray Maloney wrote:
[...]
> I should note some of my own prejudices as I began reading. I referred
> to
> the Wikipedia for a definition of gleaning, to wit:
> 
>         Gleaning is the collection of leftover crops from farmers'
> fields 
>         after they have been mechanically harvested or on fields
> where 
>         it is not economically profitable to harvest.

I found the "field of XML" farming stuff a bit much.

I'm just using the word "glean" in this 2nd sense:

2. To collect bit by bit: ´records from which historians glean their
knowledge¡ (Kemp Malone).
 -- http://www.answers.com/glean&r=67

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