- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:16:10 +1000
- To: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Peter Krantz wrote: > On 9/7/06, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: >> How is that better than simply writing this? >> >> The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will today travel to... > > You don't want to force content to be changed just to be machine > readable. Exactly! If that sentence appeared in a news paper article, which was made available online, it would appear like that. It should need to be altered for the online version to use <span content="Tony Blair">Prime Minister</span>. > In your sentence above, it is still difficult for a machine > to map "Tony Blair" to "Prime Minister" without using some sort of > natural language processing which isn't an option for most languages. But what use case is there for a computer needing to determine from a sentence like that, that the "Prime Minister" is Tony Blair? It would be quite clear to a human reading that in an article of some sort that Tony Blair is the Prime Minister without any additional markup. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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