- From: Eve L. Maler <elm@arbortext.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 18:01:58 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
At 11:09 AM 1/31/97 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
>1.4.a What do we call the container used to hold the bits that
> point at other things? (in current discussion: link)
I've been stewing on this a lot. "Link" has the same problem that "marry"
does: two people can be married (linked), but a clergymember or justice of
the peace might also marry (link) them. This ambiguity is driving me nuts.
I've found an alternative that I can live with and doesn't require clever
adjectives: link (for in-line links) and association (for out-of-line
links). Then, a "link" becomes a relationship between termini that's
expressed in an element at one of the termini, and an "association" becomes
a relationship between termini that's expressed in an element at some
neutral, non-terminus location.
>1.4.b What do we call the bits that point at other things? (in current
> discussion: pointer)
I agree that it's a good idea to distinguish pointer and address. E.g., if
we end up allowing spans, and it takes two attributes ("startspan" and
"endspan") to do spans, I assume that each one contains an address; do the
two attributes together constitute the pointer?
>1.4.c What do we call the things that are pointed at? (in current
> discussion: terminus)
Sure! (I think I came up with this one.)
Eve
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