- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:19:03 -0500
- To: tbray@textuality.com
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
>>On the other hand, if (as in HTML) we say that all linking is >>unidirectional and all links have two ends, the starting end of which >>is where the link is, XML does not offer any functional improvement, >>in hyper terms, over HTML. > >Can we not have multiway ilink-style thingies and perhaps even a >modest amount of locaddr and so on, without getting into major >paradigm re-engineering? Point is that you can already do multi-ended links, and many other things, using clever servers: no special markup is needed, just special URL forms (in the area that is supposed to be opaque). It seems obvious to me, but if we really *are* going to specify some improved linking capabilities, we are going to end up specifying processing at almost every level of the WWW (markup, protocols, client & server).
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