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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (29694)	1/2/2000 9:35:00 AM
From: Steve Bannister	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Frederick, if you haven't already, read the last few chapters of the Berners-Lee book "Weaving the Web". Provocative ideas on the "Semantic Web" founded on a generalized data representation (XML) and future languages (RDF) that will operate on it. I think you will find it an interesting and, to you, comfortable space. Also, it is worth considering the ratio of structured (mainly SQL, IMS, and dBase derivative) data vs. unstructured data in the world today. I bet it is at least 80% unstructured when you consider that most file system data is unstructured, at least in the database sense. I believe that ALL that unstructured data is a candidate to be converted to semi-structured using XML, and that database structured data will be represented as XML, as is already happening in Oracle, Universal DB, and SQL Server. My point is that all the data in the world is a candidate for XML structuring, which is powerful if we figure out how to reconcile schema collisions. That is part of what Berners-Lee addresses.