Patterns for explicit associations Re: conflation of issues or convergence of interests?

Le 30 juil. 2007 à 22:10, Lachlan Hunt a écrit :
> Now this is where there is a serious misunderstanding between us,  
> that seems to be causing the conflict.  I'm not arguing that it is  
> or isn't, I'm questioning the possibility and looking for evidence  
> to show one way or the other.  From my authoring perspective,  
> explicit associations increase complexity for authors, and so if  
> explicit associations can be avoided, they should be.  If not, then  
> we should try and find the simplest way possible to express the  
> association.


Mechanisms for creating explicit associations in HTML, trying to be  
very general. So we can see what kind of authoring pattern is the  
easiest.


* links
   A document A links to a resource B somewhere on the network.

   <link rel="stylesheet"
         href="http://example.org/foo.css"
         type="text/css"
         media="screen"/>

* nested elements
   A nested element A is defined to have a "meaningful" relationship  
with the nesting element B.

   <object…
     <p>…content…</p>
   </object>

* Attribute values
   The value of an attribute defines the element it belongs too.

   <p title="value"> …content… </p>

* anchors
   Two elements in a page are associated by a anchor

   <cite><a href="#anais">Anais</a></cite>
   …
   <p id="anais">Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was  
a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish</p>


Others?


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Received on Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:35:58 UTC