- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:52:54 -0800
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:53:36PM -0500, Mark Baker wrote: > I don't believe "information contained" is a good criterion. Some > content formats are very general (e.g. most image formats, HTML), others > very specific (e.g. MathML, HRXML). I think that in general, most > resources can only be represented by one "class" of specific > representation, but by an arbitrary number of general formats. For > example, a formula could be represented by MathML and any MathML-like > format, but also any general format like images (the formula as a > picture), HTML or plain text (the formula as prose), etc.. Right, so whether it's MathML, HTML or plain text, it contains the same idea/information/concept; the formula. information != stream of bytes. I'd use the term 'layer', but it's been abused enough ;) -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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