Oct 11 2007
Alex Iskold’s Primer on The Structured Web
Excerpt: XML, on the other hand, is focused on structure only and does not say anything at all about how information should be presented. Billions of web pages today contain unstructured information. To people, this is a non-issue because we are good at semantics and we do not need primitive XML annotation to make us understand. But for computers, lack of structure is a deal-breaker - they can’t interpret unstructured, non-standardized information very well. Read Alex’s full article here
