On 9/7/06, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
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> How is that better than simply writing this?
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>    The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will today travel to...
>

You don't want to force content to be changed just to be machine
readable. In your sentence above, it is still difficult for a machine
to map "Tony Blair" to "Prime Minister" without using some sort of
natural language processing which isn't an option for most languages.

Regards,

Peter