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From: Tyler C. <ty...@wa...> - 2006-02-03 16:18:12
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On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Tyler Close wrote: > The schema for pointer nodes is always explicitly stated. This feature > enables writing of a web-calculus spider which could traverse an > arbitrary graph of nodes, without needing to know the schema of any > encountered node. > > For example, such a spider could make a backup of your yurl.net wiki. Actually, the yurl.net wiki is a poor example for use of such a spider, since most of the links are generated based on wiki text, not represented as pointers. Oh well. I'll have to come up with a better example, but hopefully you get the idea. Tyler |