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From: Rob Tweed <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: edifact and web strategies (renamed from MSE)
Date: Tuesday 10 December 1996 02:38
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:09:40 +0000, you wrote:
>All snipped because you have all read it!
>
>Ahmad Risk is presenting some very interesting thoughts which I am
>sure will be very practical WHEN and only when infinite bandwidth
>becomes infinitely cheap (or as near as necessary!)
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I'm sorry but this is nonsense. I'm not even going to say any more
than that !
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Oh go on Rob ! Which bit, Ahmad or the rest of the world ?
I've got my head around the idea that you don't need to transfer the data,
just point to where it is, access lists, etc. but if the data isn't in some
form of structure (and one hospitals path app is running a different
database to anothers say ) how do you search for "all RBS > 7.0"
Maybe you do need a standard (possibly similar to java machine in that it
does not actually have to exist) and software , database apps write to
that, browsers know where to look. e.g. <surname>smith</surname> can then
be searched as per a database field.
Still given that you might need a medical tags version of HTML what's the
problem ?
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Dr Paul Galloway
MedWeb UK http://www.medweb.co.uk
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