Re: 1.c-d: Define a Link Processor and Communicate With It?

>1.c: Should we exclude relationships such as containment and
>succession from this spec?

No - We need concept like PARENT, CHILD, HERE and ROOT to make querying into
documents that do not have any IDs or otherwised named anchor (or whatever
they are called) points.
>
>1.d Should we specify a way for a document to provide a summary of
>the linkage machinery it uses?

If we can have a way of identifying the notation used for link definition,
with ideally that notation pointing to the address of a Java class that can
be used to implement the relevant notation, then we might be able make it
possible for blind browsers to process newly invented notations.
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Received on Saturday, 1 February 1997 06:33:21 UTC