It has always irritated me that the web has fallen so short from Engelbart's original vision of the semantic web back in 1968. HTML was supposed - in fits and starts - to delineate document structure in a way which made the content machine parseable. And to a certain extent, this has been successful (witness all the screen scrapers which proliferate the web). Things became incrementally better with the introduction of XHTML back around 2000 which made HTML compatible with a very wide ecosystem of structured markup - indeed, XML has been one of the great success stories of the past decade in computing. ...
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