Re: Link draft: 5.2 location source

After reading this a haf dozen times, I think I understand it,
though I still don't see the utility of "referrer" (so a link
can refer to a treeloc that can point back into the link itself?).

But in any case, I submit that we need to do something to the
XML-link spec to make this section clearer.  (And I'm also still
awaiting a respone to Terry's message on this.)

> From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>
> 
> At 05:10 PM 3/8/97 CST, Paul Grosso wrote:
> >In the May 5 XML Link draft, section 5.2, location source:
> >
> >I don't understand "referrer".  I don't know how to interpret
> >"the non-link element that refers to the link element."  I assume
> >"link element" should read "linking element" (ref. section 1.3),
> >but I didn't know the linking element was necessarily referred to
> >by anything.  Can someone please explain this to me?
> 
> In HyTime, the "referrer" is the non-*location address* element that refers
> to a location address.  The distinction is necessary because the location
> source for a location address element may either be the referrer or defined
> by the referrer.  However, only the top rung of a location ladder can have
> a default location source, and since the top rung will be referred to by
> the rung below it (unless the ladder consists of exactly one location
> address), we can't talk about any element referring to the location address.
> 
> Consider this HyTime (TC) example:
> 
> <link href=foo><a></a><b><b></link>
> <treeloc id=foo naimpsrc=referrer>1 2</treeloc>
> 
> The treeloc addresses the second child of its location source, which is the
> referrer element (the Link), thus it addresses the element B.  In this case
> there is exactly one step in the location path from the Link element to its
> ultimate target, so the element that refers directly to the treeloc is also
> the element that makes the initial reference to the location path the
> treeloc is in (because there is only one step in the path, the treeloc).
> 
> . . .


> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:22:30 -0800
> From: Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>
>
> . . .
> 
> Eliot writes:
> | Consider this HyTime (TC) example:
> | 
> | <link href=foo><a></a><b><b></link>
> | <treeloc id=foo naimpsrc=referrer>1 2</treeloc>
> | 
> | The treeloc addresses the second child of its location source, which is the
> | referrer element (the Link), thus it addresses the element B.  In this case
> | there is exactly one step in the location path from the Link element to its
> | ultimate target, so the element that refers directly to the treeloc is also
> | the element that makes the initial reference to the location path the
> | treeloc is in (because there is only one step in the path, the treeloc).
> 
> Which is the location source for treeloc in the following?
> 
> <link href=foo><a></a><b></b></link>
> <anotherlink href=foo><c></c><d></d></link>
> <treeloc id=foo naimpsrc=referrer>1 2</treeloc>

Received on Wednesday, 12 March 1997 17:02:09 UTC