- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:20:22 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
At 8:34 AM 1/3/97, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: >At 10:10 AM 1/3/97 -0500, David G. Durand wrote: >>Well, if it _requires the entity reference,_ then we should not use HyTime. > >It doesn't require an entity reference. Great! This is important! > Using my proposed scheme, you >could use a queryloc to contain the URL, e.g.: > > <urlloc id="bookrev">http://www.drmacro.com/bookrev</urlloc> > <P> > See <link linkend="bookrev">my book review site</link> for > a draft introduction to HyTime. But surely you can also do something like: <p>See <link linkend="http://www.drmacro.com/bookrev">my book review site</link> for ... If not, we still have a problem, because that extra element is not acceptable for simple links. It's not a problem as an option to support TEI linking, or some esoteric linking method. I also think we need to look at the #-sign hack. I've as yet seen no justification for _not_ using URL-compatible link formats. Gavin has argued for a different kind of URL-compatibility, but it still has a real flaw: We can't make link formats depend on the server: so if we have path extensions on URLs, like his proposed "/chapter=4/p=23" then we need browsers to be able to parse these addresses -- and I think that violates the URL opaqueness condition that I stated, along with its consequencs. I want to make clear that I am not saying that extra elements or entity references _cannot_ be used in XML linking, they almost certainly will be needed. However, nothing that can currently be done in HTML should become any harder when using XML -- that would be a prescription for failure. Call me reactionary, but I'm just trying to speak for the people who already know HTML who just want to get the job done -- they may accept additional complexity for additional power, but if what they can already do becomes harder, they won't necessarily take the trouble to enter our brave new world of descriptive markup. -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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