- From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 97 19:13:44 CST
- To: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>, W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org>
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 18:24:04 -0900 Eliot Kimber said: >At 03:32 PM 12/30/96 -0800, Terry Allen wrote: >> ... >>So, what indicates the semantics of the link to the query? It isn't >>the HTTP method. Is it the semantics of <crossref>? > >In the HyTime model, it's the semantics of addresses in general: that >any reference to a location address is a reference to whatever the >location address addresses (recursed until you either get only >non-location addresses, reach the "reflevel" limit, or have a >circular reference). This behavior of addresses is independent of >linking (in other words, the same address resolution behavior would >result from an ID reference that was not a "link" as we're defining >it here). This sounds suspiciously as if it would be impossible to point at a link (or perhaps I mean to point at *an address*) in order to talk about it, without slipping past it and landing at what it's pointing at. How on earth will I ever be able to write the definitive cultural critique of hypertext with extensive discussions of the linking practices of Kimber, Durand, and Allen, if every time I point at Eliot's links I get an Altavista query for basset hounds? Surely there's a HyTime way around this problem? -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
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