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Re: [ontolog-forum] Accommodating legacy software

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From: "doug foxvog" <doug@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:31:52 -0400
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On Wed, September 5, 2012 07:27, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 9/5/12 12:07 AM, doug foxvog wrote:
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>>> > Sure, we could have multiple formats, but transmitted
>>> > semantic data not in a defined format
>>> > could not be successfully received.    (01)

>> >I beg to differ.    (02)

>> Sure the file could be received.  But the semantics? ...
>> could your system receive the content
>> (as opposed to merely the characters) if you had no document
>> specifying what the format was?    (03)

> That's why we have mime types.    (04)

... which means a defined format.  You seem to have missed the
qualifier "not in a defined format".    (05)

So there is no dispute between us on this matter.    (06)

>> -- doug foxvog    (07)

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