Re: Semi-structured data

Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<2juir5F15r9gpU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...

> > Semistructured is an oxymoron. It is like half bit or half pixel.

> No, it is not.
>
> Semistructured data has an obvious meaning,

Semistructured is an obvious contradiction. Data is structured or it is noise. Structure is all or nothing.

For instance a bitmap or a string of characters are perfectly structured.

> It has some exaggerated hype attached to it, maybe, but it is a concept
> that is here to stay.

Probably, but it does not mean that it is not contradictory.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 15:35:58 CEST