Re: RFD: Adding alias names to links and resources in HTML documents
James Aylett (sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:01:49 +0100 (BST)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:01:49 +0100 (BST)
From: James Aylett <sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
cc: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Adding alias names to links and resources in HTML documents
In-Reply-To: <199704242213.SAA28939@unix.asb.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970424235906.6069A-100000@crystal.clare.cam.ac.uk>
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Rob wrote:
>
> A lot of suggestions regarding <link>, <resource> etc. Read on:
>
> A useful feature to add to Cougar would be the use of logical names
> (aliases) for resources using the <link> tag. Links in documents
> would refer to the logical name of the resource, with that name being
> defined (in a shared file) with the actual URL.
Isn't this part of the idea behind URNs (Universal Resource Names)? I
think this could be achieved better if you used URNs, but specified (via a
LINK element in the HEAD of the HTML document) the specific URN database
or server to use - assuming that is that I've got the ideas right here.
James
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