- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:55:22 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
[Peter Flynn:] | >Anyone who uses tree-walking-by-number-alone to point to stuff on the | >Web has rocks in their head. It may be possible occasionally, to | >count typed nodes (e.g. the fourth chapter), but just counting nodes, | >or levels in the tree, is guaranteed, I repeat guaranteed, to fail, | >in a high proportion of cases. | | Emperor's new clothes. I always wondered how it was supposed to work | when so many documents are either dynamically constructed, or in a | constant state of revision. It works beautifully with documents that are read-only. Not all the documents that will be on the Web are as evanescent as the ones that dominate right now. Terry Allen has pointed to religious works; how about, say, the Statutes of the Realm? Jon
Received on Monday, 14 April 1997 18:55:46 UTC