- From: W. Eliot Kimber <eliot@isogen.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 11:12:39 -0900
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
At 12:20 PM 1/3/97 -0500, David G. Durand wrote: >At 8:34 AM 1/3/97, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: >>At 10:10 AM 1/3/97 -0500, David G. Durand wrote: >>>Well, if it _requires the entity reference,_ then we should not use HyTime. >> >>It doesn't require an entity reference. >Great! This is important! You're darn tootin' it's important. It's the only way we can hope to have the power of HyTime with the convenience of things like URLs and TEI locators. >> Using my proposed scheme, you >>could use a queryloc to contain the URL, e.g.: >> >> <urlloc id="bookrev">http://www.drmacro.com/bookrev</urlloc> >> <P> >> See <link linkend="bookrev">my book review site</link> for >> a draft introduction to HyTime. > >But surely you can also do something like: > <p>See <link linkend="http://www.drmacro.com/bookrev">my book review >site</link> for ... Certainly you can do this (it's the whole point of the refloc facility). But I was trying to satisfy Martin's requirement for a re-uable ID reference to a URL. >I also think we need to look at the #-sign hack. I've as yet seen no >justification for _not_ using URL-compatible link formats. Gavin has argued >for a different kind of URL-compatibility, but it still has a real flaw: I think the #-sign hack is a reasonable solution. A similar facility has been proposed for the SGML revision (but not designed to the point where we are confident in the final sytax) where you can combine an entity name with an ID to do simple direct cross-document ID references. I think the #-sign hack is consistent semantically with this proposal: in both cases you're binding a name to the object that defines the name space. The only difference is the way you name the name space (entity vs. direct URL reference). Cheers, E. -- W. Eliot Kimber (eliot@isogen.com) Senior SGML Consulting Engineer, Highland Consulting 2200 North Lamar Street, Suite 230, Dallas, Texas 75202 +1-214-953-0004 +1-214-953-3152 fax http://www.isogen.com (work) http://www.drmacro.com (home) "Rats in the morning, rats in the afternoon...if they don't go away, I'll be re-educated soon..." --Austin Lounge Lizards, "1984 Blues"
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