Opportunities for XML-DEV

[Frank Boumphrey]

Bob,

>I can imagine that it would be fairly easy to formulate
>interesting queries to the dictionary-thesaurus when marked up in xml.  But
>I'm wondering what sort of applications this data might enable?

Of the top of my head, I havn't a clue! but if the information was out there
it would give us some thing to work with! I bet it wouldnt be long before
some one came up with a Activexcontrol or an applet to search your material!

Are there any "general" uses for dictionary data in the XML
>community?

I don't know about the XMl community (although reading some of the posts
both the dictionary and the thesaurus most definitly needs to be used
<grin/>), but it would be information of real value for the web ingeneral.

The lack of such material I think it is an example of what Peter is worried
about when he states that there is a dearth of data out ther marked up in
XML

regards,
Frank

P.S I took the liberty of posting this reply to XML-DEV as well.

Frank Boumphrey

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Parks <bobp at lightlink.com>
To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman at ix.netcom.com>
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: Opportunities for XML-DEV


Original message

>Frank,
>I understand the desire to get as many XML documents available on the web
>as possible. I can imagine that it would be fairly easy to formulate
>interesting queries to the dictionary-thesaurus when marked up in xml.  But
>I'm wondering what sort of applications this data might enable? Are there
>other applications that might be able to take advantage of the semantics in
>the data? Are there any "general" uses for dictionary data in the XML
>community?
>Bob
>
>>I have a 50,000 headword dictionary and thesaurus of English that can
>>>fairly easily be converted to a simple XML representation. Would
>>>availability of this text for research help stimulate application
>>>development? What sort of applications?
>>>Bob Parks
>>
>>
>>gosh yes!!
>>
>>The more fundamental stuff like this we can get in XML format the better!
>>Part of getting the momentum going.
>>
>>I'm sure every one knows about
>>
>>
>>http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/xml/eg/shakespeare.1.10.xml.zip">Shake
sp
>>eares plays
>>
>>and
>>
>>http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/xml/eg/religion.1.10.xml.zip">the
Bible,
>>the book of Mormon and the Koran.
>>
>>These were marked up by Jon Bosak. he needs to update his syntax!<grin>,
he
>>uses <?XML instead of the lower case!!



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