Holistic HyperText

 HTML is only a partial Hypertext language.

 Embedding links in documents is a fundamental flaw. Firstly, you are
 pointing to other peoples documents, over which you have no control.
 Secondly, you have hardwired even your own links, which makes the task of
 managing a website grow disproportionately with the size of the site.

      Broken Websites. Broken links.

 Consider a programming analogy. The competent software engineer will never
 hardwire external interfaces into his code. He will use external resources
 that are specified at runtime, such as configuration files and
 environment variables. Yet HTML constrains us to hardwire everything!
 HTML is a non-scaleable experiment that has miraculously scaled up to
 become the hottest thing of our times!

 It is possible with CGI to overcome this problem, at least in part, by
 generating dynamic links, provided the CGI knows what should be a link.
 This is how WebȚing works.

 When you enter a document in the WebȚing, you specify

      What should link to this document?

 as opposed to the conventional HTML

      What does this document link to?

 This information is entered in WebȚing's database. If you subsequently
 move, change or delete the document, the database is updated accordingly,
 and so all links to it are automatically updated (or deleted). Since
 Holistic HTML links are generated at runtime, the integrity of links
 is assured.

                      Holistic HyperText - Summary

                          HTML HyperText        Holistic Hypertext

                       They are written into    They are generated
  Where do Hyperlinks  your documents, and are  dynamically from a
  come from?           correct at the time you  database, and are correct
                       write them.              at the time you read
                                                them.

  What happens when I  You specify links to     You specify keywords
  create a new         other documents as you   which generate links from
  document?            see fit.                 other documents whenever
                                                they are viewed.

  What happens when I  You go through every     Links from - as well as
  add a document to a  document and decide      to - existing documents
  highly linked        whether, and if so from  are generated
  collection?          where, it should link to automatically.
                       the new document.

  What happens when I  You go through every     Since it's no longer
  delete a document    document and remove      there, links to it will
  in a linked          links to it. Or, more    not appear in other
  collection?          usually, you have a      documents. Automatic.
                       broken website.

  What happens when I
  modify a document
  in a linked          see above.               see above.
  collection?

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