- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:10:35 -0400 (EDT)
- To: macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> I agree that structure is important, but only if you can do something > with it. So far, I am not aware of any Web tools that actually DO > anything useful/interesting/amusing with HTML structure. (Well, OK, > some not-very-well-known browsers do do holophrasting.) The good (and popular) search engines use HTML structure. Note that the hierarchical structure of HTML documents can be implied. This is not as good as explicit structure using containment, but it is there. > -- The ADDRESS element, which might seem to have useful semantics, has > no internal structure. Wouldn't it be nice if a tool could extract > an name and e-mail address and phone number from the address? An excellent idea. Paul Prescod
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