Errrrrr....... Déjà vu? Isn't this what XML will do?
Dr G Mark Trowell
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
Sent: 17 June 1998 01:34
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Multiple information sources
We should try to put a brake on the multiplcation of proprietary
hypertext presentations - eg the Oxford Textbooks, Cochrane etc, and
look for a common mode of presentation, either by an API allowing a
single program (eg EMIS) to query all installed references, and
amalgamate the replies, or by providing them as html/xml.
Otherwise the desktop becomes horribly cluttered, and searching means
using a whole series of slightly different search engines.
Who is moving toward that?
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