- From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:59:18 +0000
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:52 -0500, Elliotte Harold wrote: > [...] > >>Bottom line: the reader of a document is ultimately responsible for >>understanding the document. Different readers will understand different >>things. > > > In extreme cases, yes; but mostly, they'll understand the same > thing; that's where the web gets its value. It facilitates > shared understanding by providing mechanisms to bind (relatively) small > symbols like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAR_Camp to interesting and > useful meanings. For XML documents: isn't this why we have the application/xml+ range of mimetypes? cheers Bill
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