- From: Steven J. DeRose <sjd@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:04:32 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
At 08:57 AM 01/09/97 -0800, Derek Denny-Brown wrote: >One of the (traditional) difficulties in implementing ilinks is based on the >fact that any of it's anchors may be in various other documents, some >parsed, some not. If link processing can be isolated such that it is either >guaranteed to be done before or after the parsing of all of it's relavent >target documents, it becomes much easier. If it is parsed first than a Hmmm. I think the problem is mostly that the *intermediate* rungs of the location ladder can be scatted, not that the end can be far away. But your point that perhaps the problem can be isolate is a good one. What if we simplified HyTime location ladders by insisting on the convention that in XML-LINK documents, all ilinks and all of their subordinate rungs must be together in a reserved header element (I don't care whether we reserve a GI or just an architectural form name in this case). Then you don't have to parse entire documents just to get their ilinks, and you can simplify/accelerate your implementation a tiny bit by knowing where to look for some things. S
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