- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: 16 Jun 2003 08:04:37 -0400
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>, spec-prod@w3.org
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 06:10, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org> writes: > > > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 11:26, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > > Any chance of getting a stable ID on each of the entries in that > > > document? Then I'll put together a two - stage XML Pipeline (XInclude > > > plus XSLT) which will give everybody exactly what they want. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by stable... You have different keys that you > > can use depending on what you need, but that may or may not be as stable > > as you would wish: > > * the rdf:about attribute for each document allows to retrieve the > > information on a specific version of a document; but it disappears as > > soon as a new version is published > > I _think_ that's not what we want -- if you look at the normative > references sections of most of our RECs, they refer to _dated_ > versions of other RECs. When I refer to a stable Rec, I use the dated version. When I refer to a document that's not yet a Rec, I refer to the dated version of the latest draft AND include a "latest version" link as well. - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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