- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:06:54 -0400
- To: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
pat hayes wrote: > > Can you (or anyone) say why the ability to quote is considered a > practical necessity? From where I am standing it seems an arcane and > exotic ability, not one that is of central practical importance. What > is the practical utility of being able to refer to a predicate, > rather than use it? In reading a particularly apropos and curious email discussion regarding the history of XML http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200105/msg00375.html, it occurred to me that representing email exchanges (http://www.openhealth.org/xmtp# )is another practical example of how representation of quoting is generally useful. Indeed it is considered good ettiquite to start one's response with an attribution. Thankfully most archiving packages do provide a thread level view. (e.g. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001May/thread.html#31) And of course I second, or third, the absolute need for this in healthcare documentation. Jonathan Borden The Open Healthcare Group http://www.openhealth.org
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