- From: Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 13:20:58 -0600
- To: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
Joe English wrote: > > bosak@atlantic-83.eng.sun.com (Jon Bosak) wrote: > > > I personally have never seen anything specified in connection with a > > link that could not be subsumed under some combination of these > > categories; if anyone else can think of something, I sure would like > > to know what it is. > > Another category of link behaviour is "transclusion" or > "simultaneous presentation" linking. it can also be thought of and practically implemented as a "get" and avoid a lot of garbage description. > With these types of links traversal is automatic, so there's > no notion of presentation/state before/during/after traversal. no. it is implied and documented by axiom, in SGML practice, the comments or DTD documentation. > > 2'. In particular, I think that it is of the utmost importance to > > distinguish meaning (relationship typing) from behavior (which > > includes presentation). I think that the analogy between semantic > > tagging vs. style information in SGML and relationship typing vs. link > > behavior is an apt and powerful one. And one not embraced by the majority of web applications. They may know something. len
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