- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 02:05:07 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
Jens Meiert wrote:
>>I have a book here without an ISBN. What's your suggestion for that?
>
> Normally each book has an ISBN.
Books published before ISBN was created don't. A lot of research papers
and reports also don't. I also can't refer you to the Introduction if
I can only give you the ISBN.
> If you reference to sources that do not have any standardized origin,
> you cannot use the cite attribute,
The question is then, what /do/ I use?
> or you have to reference alternatively, e.g. by linking to an URL
> where you found the book.
Not sure what you mean by this. I found the book in the library.
~fantasai, who thinks there should be a simple, human-readable format
for attributions (which can be backed by a URI if available)
Received on Sunday, 18 May 2003 02:04:12 UTC