- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:56:09 -0800
- To: "Matt May" <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>
- Cc: "Anne Pemberton" <apembert@crosslink.net>, "WAI GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 02:41 PM 12/28/2000 , Matt May wrote: >My main issue is with using search-and-replace as a solution to anything. >Are the webmasters at IBM going to look at a list of guidelines and say, >"gosh, we've got 30 gigs of content, not counting everything in our >knowledge bases, most of which contain all kinds of acronyms and >abbreviations, some of which are duplicated or usage-sensitive... yeah, go >ahead and run that sed script"? Negative! > >Now think about places other than plain-old markup where content can hide: >in content management systems, ASP/JSP/CGI code, Oracle databases (both >web-specific and multipurpose)... it appears to me that the dangers of >search and replace are not being considered here. Matt, not everyone on this list has the same depth of technical know-how -- can you explain what the dangerous of search-and-replace are, and why the IBM webmasters would not want to run a sed script over their content storage system? --Kynn, who knows what Matt means but will let him explain it -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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