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Re: A serious detail point

From: Dave Hollander <dmh@hpsgml.fc.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:26:30 -0600
Message-Id: <199704181426.AA016203591@hpsgml.fc.hp.com>
To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org> 
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:53:17 -0400 Henry Thompson said:
 >Here's the problem: I want to have tens of thousands of links in a
 >single document, all pointing to (spans in) ONE target document.
 >Without a way to specify a default containing resource OTHER THAN the
 >document contain the linking element, I will have to reproduce the URL
 >for my target document in the specification of EVERY ONE of those
 >links.
 >
 >Or have I missed something?


I must agree with Michael. I am not happy that this application
has the burden of so many entities (a small burden I believe) but 
I can see no alternative that would be network application friendly
and any less of a burden.

Dave
Received on Friday, 18 April 1997 10:35:13 EDT

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