How we got on the subject of the Semantic web from headers I don't know. I think we're somehow missing the entire point of the Semantic web. Even prior to the development of RDF, OWL, XML and the like people were able to partake and consume the information available from various sources. It was not until RDF, OWL, XML and the like were computers able to understand and process the information across platform, computer, and businesses.
If IBM wanted to share information with HP they had to allow access to files or provide files to HP. IBM would not, for security reasons, share their database with HP. Chase Manhattan Bank may want to share information with Australia National Bank (may be fictitious). For them to do it they had to send files, tapes or printed material. For Chase Manhattan Bank to share information with the credit reporting agencies they had to send tapes. The Semantic web has changed that. Any computer connected to the WWW can share information with another computer through Resource Description Framework which uses XML to share information. So, no longer to we have to keep our information to ourselves. We can share that information by dynamically creating an XML file from a database and granting access to that file using the Universal Resource Identifier. Still doesn't have anything to do with a heading tag. Think of it as an early form of the artificial intelligence we see in movies such as Terminator 3. Eventually computers will be able to talk to each other which is what makes a semantic web. Semantic is defined basically as understanding the meaning of words. " Relating to the meaning of written or spoken words. " http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3Asemantic&btnG=Google+ Search Computers so far do not understand the meaning of written or spoken words. They can be programmed to respond to verbal commands of one word, but they don't understand them. We're not in the land of Star Trek yet. Hopefully this clears it up. Lee Roberts http://www.roserockdesign.com http://www.applepiecart.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
