uThe Web was originally built for human consumption
Web pages are machine-readable but not machine-understandable
uExample: A bibliography entry in HTML
<UL>
<LI>
R. Goldman, J. McHugh, and J. Widom.
<A
href="ftp://db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/xml.ps">
From Semistructured Data to XML: Migrating the
Lore Data Model
and Query Language
</A>.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on
the Web and
Databases (WebDB ‘99), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1999.
</UL>