- From: Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:41:15 -0600
- To: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Jon Bosak wrote: > To think of "the document" as a thing bound to a location in the same > way that one thinks of "the machine" as a thing bound to a location > is, in my opinion, to commit a category error that hopelessly muddles > all further thought on the subject. The notion that there is One True > Copy of a text stopped being accurate with the invention of the > printing press, and we stopped referencing documents that way even > before then. The biggest problem with URLs is that in attempting to > implement hypertext they misrepresent the idea of text itself. That is right. The idea of a "record of authority" is still with us. It is the legal master copy. I consider that a document management problem, and then a location problem. len
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